digitalcole (the real me)

digitalcole
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I've been mulling it around in my head, this facade. At some point in the not to distant future we'll forgo our biologic shells and adopt facade/avatars, in a clumsy way we already do it. This will be how the world will see us and perhaps how we'll want to see ourselves. Every aspect will be a choice and not only will they be infinitely customizable we'll be able to change it on the fly.

This image is just a dry run but, the highlights are there. I can only imagine what everyone else will come up with.

-adc- (digitalcole)

Orlov the Bear

Orlov
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I've been running a Rifts game with Nancy for a couple of weeks. This is Orlov the Bear and yes, he's Russian. Depending on how far we get I may post the adventure here, more as a story or synopsis then anything else.

I've had some good conversations this week about the new developments regarding VR imaging in cell phones and how it's going to change the way we view the world. We'll see a complete merging of the virtual and biologic world and it'll force us to change how we perceive life and what is real.

Thinking about how we view ourselves and each other will be the centerpiece of this new experience. Literally with the flick of a switch (or press of a button) we'll be able to not only change our own appearance but, change the appearances of everyone around us. Instant customization. Of course at this point we'll need a visor of some sort. Something that combines cell, geo-tagging, video, the web into a device that we'll use to view this new hybrid world. Predicting when this will happen can have negative ramifications but, I think four or five years before we have a visor unit is a good bet.

I've already started thinking about what I want my avatar to look like...

-adc- (digitalcole)

musings...

Some musings...

(warning, some of this is kind of deep)

Singularity Hub Speaking about the singularity movies that are about to hit and what will it be like to bring "the dead" back to life.

Fast Company 1 Can the news survive in the digital world? Yes but, not the way you think.

Fast Company 2 The US education system is broken, what more can I say...

Read at your own peril.

-adc- (digitalcole)

I really am working...see?

I really am working...see?
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What have I been doing lately? Well, for starters I've been taking numerous strolls around the web finding all sort of interesting things mostly involving digital technology and our society. I'm going to stop short of calling myself a singularitarian but, granted, the idea is intriguing. Without doubt we as in the human race will eventually create the technology that'll give us eternal life weather it be nano, techno or some other undiscovered means, it will happen. The question is what will we, the human race, do with ourselves once we reach this plateau? If I can allow myself a moment of wistful fantasy I can imagine a collective knowledge universe where we not only share memories but, our thoughts and feelings. A collective consciousness if you will. Of course this is already starting. We already have collective memories (blogs, flickr, facebook) and if google wave does what I think it's capable of that may be the beginning of collective consciousness. Some of these ideas here, were already discussed on FastCompany.

It's an exciting time to be alive. We're entering into a world where anything and I mean anything will be possible. It'll require a new mind set, a new way of thinking about life and our place in the universe. Are we capable of such responsibility? After all we make destruction an art form. We'll need to get past our obsession with living in a scarcity society and embrace the abundance society that we're now finding ourselves in. This wont be easy, many corporations and through them governments are standing in our way. Terrified at the prospects of finding a world in which they're no longer relevant, they strive to usurp us in our endeavor to live in a free society, where knowledge is infinitely sharable. They remind me of little children afraid to live in a bigger world. They'd rather go in circles then wonder off the path to see what's out there. I personally would have no problem with their futile endeavor to "bury their heads in the sand". The problem that I have is that they expect us to follow suit. It's an absurd notion yet though copyright law and powerful lobbyist that's exactly what they're trying to do. This in the end will fail, no totalitarian regime can last. It tends to eat itself from the inside through it's own paranoia. In the end they're really nothing more than a waste of time but, how sad it is that we waste this precious time. Time that could be spent moving us forward.

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