Addiction is most often associated with alcohol, drugs and cigarettes — but what about compulsive eating, gambling, or video gaming? According to the American Psychiatric Association, compulsive gambling meets the criteria for addiction, but compulsive video gaming (and interneting) does... View full entry
Second Life is slowly beginning to lose its grip on the virtual world. It is losing ground with advertisers, and in facing increased competitions from China. This may be another step towards a meatverse browser that will move you from world to world seamlessly as discussed previously. The virtual... View full entry
In two parts: Part A goes beyond previous scenario development by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and others, which modeled stabilization for carbon dioxide. Part B of the report concludes that scenarios can support decision-making by providing insights regarding key uncertainties... View full entry
“The [Viewfinder] exhibition casts a particular eye on the distortion of the camera's conventional operations in the artist's pursuit of striking images and deeper content…Since photography's inception, our world has become an ever more visual culture, where deciphering media images... View full entry
“The resurgence of interest in the act of walking or 'wandering' within contemporary artistic practice can be viewed as a critical tool or operation through which to challenge or subvert the logic of the system, for it carries the possibility of rupture by reintroducing a temporal pulse or... View full entry
“The Metaverse that's really on the way, some experts believe, will resemble Stephenson's vision, but with many alterations. It will look like the real earth, and it will support even more users than the Snow Crash cyberworld, functioning as the agora, laboratory, and gateway for almost... View full entry
The International Energy Agency has warned of a shortage of oil in the next five years. ABC (Australia) | Here and Now (listen) View full entry
Karim Lakhani is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School's Technology and Operations Management Unit. He is a serious scholar of crowdsourcing, trying to build theories of if, how and why it works. In the past he's also written on open source theory and innovation, including articles... View full entry
The company behind Second Life, Linden Lab, hopes to introduce hand-held and wearable systems that act as gateways between the real and virtual worlds. Linden Lab and other virtual worlds also are developing versions that run on existing mobile phones.Boston Globe Even iphone is getting into... View full entry
The conditions and situations of today's contemporary life are becoming or have become completely defined by corporate power. Is this domination something you should worry about? DemNow View full entry
Assignment Zero: Can Crowds Create Fiction, Architecture and Photography Wired View full entry
With humour, affordable art, an online auction and good will The Most Curatorial Biennial of the Universe responds…“to two major social issues of our time: biennialessness and poverty. Through an open call to curators and artists, nearly 600 people are now "with biennial." All works... View full entry
As WonderK reminds us over on GTC, today there are a series of concerts all over the world as part of an environmental awareness campaign.Watch 'Live Earth' | Official Site View full entry
“We all have places that we feel connected to, but these places rarely stay the same. Disappearing Places exists as both an archive and collective map of places that no longer exist, at least not as they once did. Users can upload stories and images about a place, link them to a... View full entry
“He was once flown to Spain as stills photographer on the set of Robert Rossen's Alexander the Great. A wonderful image of a Spanish seamstress working on a costume against a barren sun-dried backdrop was rather more his thing than snapping Richard Burton in Grecian armour.” Telegraph View full entry