dreaming in public
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Internet is no longer "virtual" (in the sense of: fantasy, make-belief, not real). It's becoming physical. Some people don't realise this and their online behaviour clashes with their real life.TRANSCRIPT
Dreaming in PublicSocial skills in cyberspaceClo Willaerts
Kortrijk, 15 March 2009
Clo Willaerts?
Sanoma Magazines Belgium
@bnox
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Sanoma Magazines Belgium
Sanoma Magazines Belgium
virtual physical
1975 Maze War
virtual world
virtual = not real, simulated, fantasy
http://www.digibarn.com/history/04-VCF7-MazeWar/index.html
1984 William Gibson
Neuromancer:
artificial intelligence
virtual reality
genetic engineering
cyberspace
1985 Ultima IV
Avatara (Sanskrit): "incarnation"
avatar
computer games
internet chat
instant messaging
blogs
1992 Neal Stephenson
Snow Crash
avatars (= online virtual bodies) in the metaverse (= a virtual-reality version of the Internet)
1993 Peter Steiner
“On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” (The New Yorker)
“the ability to self-represent from behind the computer screen may be part of the compulsion to go online.”
2007 Robbie CooperAlter Ego: gamers and their avatars
2007 Robbie CooperAlter Ego: gamers and their avatars
What happens on Facebook....
Kevin Colvin
Kevin Colvin
Facebook: Kevin Colvin
MySpace: Carmen Kontur-Gronquist
Bebo: Naomi Broady and David Rice
Bebo: Naomi Broady and David Rice
YouTube: Alberto Arroyo
Flickr: Tamara Hoover
Blog: Michael Hanscom
Twitter: @keyinfluencer vs FedEx in Memphis
Now what?
The internet is not virtual any more
smartphones: cameraphones + mobile internet
Google never forgets (and neither does Twitter Search)
The Internet of Things
Meet-ups e.g. Twunch.be
The comcast guyhttp://twitter.com/comcastcares
Dreaming in public
“Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams.
We’re dreamers, you see, but we’re also realists, of a sort.”
(William Gibson)
Thank you
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