Dreaming In Public

Dreaming in PublicSocial skills in cyberspaceClo Willaerts

Kortrijk, 15 March 2009

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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)

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