Networking into 2018

What if putting on glasses that allowed you to access directions, information and virtual worlds was as normal as getting up in the morning? What if they were also available as contact lenses?

And what if you could ask questions of the man who dreamed up the world in which this happened, which is something Information Week's Mitch Wagner, in his Ziggy Figaro persona, gets to do, and wearing cool shoes like these. (click for the way out detail)

It's Easy

Each Tuesday at 8 a.m, Second Life time ([Pacific) Mitch meets with a guest, or a couple of them, at the amphitheater at Dr Dobbs Island in Second Life for Grid Talk.

The best part of this for me - besides getting to see cool stuff people find to wear - is that the open audience format is very casual and the company is put at ease.

Asking questions during the presentation is encouraged, chat is far from stifled, and all are welcome to stay after the event to interact with whoever is available.

Networking and networked

The future, networked technologies and their effect on out daily lives was on tap this morning in an open meeting with author Charles Stross,  focusing primarily on the world of 2018 he created for his sci fi novel Halting State.

Mitch admitted his prejudice about this particular novel before the event when he wrote

"Halting State is a well-realized and intelligent treatise about near-future effects of networked technology.

It's also an extremely entertaining, thrilling, and funny crime caper novel."

Informed opinion

Stross has published 14 novels, including Accelerando,the Merchant Family series,
Singularity Sky, and The Atrocity Archive

Thus alone may seemed to qualify him to opine on effects of artificial intelligence on human society by way of his research for writing,

This morning I was delayed by a sick spouse so was late getting to the event, which makes it even better that for those who missed the discussion in Second Life there will be a downloadable
audio file or a podcast.

The details I have are that it will be available at the Information Week site within a short time of the presentation.

Group Photo: the sci-fiesque audience was colorful, complete with horns and little green men

Next week? I don't know what's on the schedule, but I'll try to be prompt because it's never, ever boring.

Comments

[Mitch Wagner]

thanks, susan!