Living at the cyberfringe 15 minutes in the future: Stay up way too late, sleep too little, work too hard, curious about almost everything, laugh at unusual things, thoughtful and always opinionated!
I'm selling my home. Here is a short video showing the house and describing its features. If you know anybody looking for family housing in the area of Washington, DC, please pass this on! Thanks very much.
"It may sound frivolous, but many technology watchers believe that virtual worlds may shape the next evolution of the Internet. This spring, Gartner Inc., a leading research company in Britain, predicted that 80 per cent of Internet users would have virtual identities by 2011. IBM is said to be quietly developing a program that will allow avatars to wander the Web freely. New software may also allow them to be controlled with gestures rather than keyboard and mouse, the same way games are played on the Nintendo Wii.
Before long, we may all be teleporting digital reflections of ourselves around the world hosting business meetings, test-driving virtual cars, touring simulated versions of real-life real estate, attending class or slaying trolls as instinctively as we now click on a website. Your avatar would be your online ambassador."
"The other truth helpfully revealed in the throes of the crisis is that ethics and integrity and social responsibility aren't just optional extras for good business management unless by "management," you mean "looting." Managers don't need to be trained; they need to be educated "in the sense of "civilized." Unfortunately, a business degree isn't just irrelevant to that purpose; it's positively detrimental."
Here is my website with pictures of some of my projects in SecondLife, including the islamic palace (in the moorish style) I have built, based on the Myrtle palace at the Alhambra, caves (which are tourist attractions, futuristic buildings in the sky and my spaceship.
I've been spending A LOT of time in SecondLife because it is fun (why else?) and also because it feels like the WWW did to me in 1995 -- primed to explode and change the world. This article discusses the rapidly expanding use of Secondlife for science and education. There are hundreds of universities (worldwide), museums and scientific organizations that have resources in SecondLife. Lecture series, models, laboratories, conferences ... read the article to get a glimpse. Best of all, SecondLife is FREE. No need to spend money unless you want to (and the temptation is there, of course, with an in-world economy and monthly in-world transactions measured in millions of USD.
I am known as Danger359 Nightfire in SecondLife. Look me up if you decide to visit!
A loaded hub page of resources for philosophy research, including databases, online encyclopedias, online journals, links to specific journals, online paper archives, online texts, philosophy in the media, philosophy of mind, general philosophy resources, philosophy guides and surves, links, libraries, philosophy departments at universities .... phew.
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