In her post about Post-Immersionism Gwyneth Llewelyn touched something that is raising a whole new set of questions:
There is no digital self without interaction with others. And, indeed, it’s the mental image of what other people think you are that becomes your digital self.
Is it really like that? Maybe it is possible to develop a digital self without other people to see it. Maybe digital being can develop in solitude, like some weird kind of a cave man.
– You have what?!? – he asked
– I told you: Prim eyelashes.
– Prim eyelashes?
– Yes. – I knew this conversation will amuse me once it pop out.
– I don't believe you. Read more »
Sometimes I feel like Sancho Panza fighting the windmills. My favourite windmill being the terminology of immersionism/augmentationism. One would expect that the obvious mistake in the terminology like that one is will be cleared easily, so we can continue thinking and discussing the problem more effectively. But no, it doesn't happen.
It's not that I haven't said it loud enough and often enough. Something else is the case here. Read more »
I am reading Zippora's SL is not TV and wondering how comes that virtual environments, like second life have so high productivity level. Most of us are doing our virtual activities in the evening or during the night, in the periods of the day while we are already tired and need rest.
Physically we are probably relaxing indeed, but our thoughts go on and on and we won't give them a break. We don't give our grey cells a chance to start slumbering as long as we are chatting or building, even if they'd like to. We ARE tired but tend to ignore the symptoms – do your eyes ever itch after logging off? – or even laugh about it: haha typonese!
Still, forgetting the tiredness, we are reaching the peak of productivity then. Read more »
I am not going to rant about Linden's last raising of the OpenSpace prices. Because this time, it's not about running the biz wisely nor respecting the customers. It's about friends leaving second life or retreating because they cannot afford (or don't want to pay too much for) virtual land anymore. This time it's personal.
Because, that chunk of data, that grayscale image that renders into 3D mesh with ground texture, is a very personal thing. Read more »
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