Event: Get Your Geek On!
If the idea of being connected even virtually to some of the major thinkers in technology today gets your little geek heart thumping, you must attend this Second Life event happening Friday at 11am SLT : Here’s the description as plagiarized from SL’s Events search platform:
“The Next Killer Application & Innovative Technologies
“The Int. Council of The Paley Center for Media (formerly The Museum of Television & Radio), held in association with the Media and Entertainment and IT/TC Governors of the World Economic Forum, will be hosted at Sun Microsystems, Google and Yahoo. The event will bring together approximately 100 senior executives from across the world’s leading media, entertainment, and technology companies to discuss convergence and the new platforms that are shaping the future of the industry.
“… Sun will be hosting the Whats Next? session led by Greg Papadopoulos, CTO and EVP of R&D, which will also be shown (in the) Sun Pavilion. Greg will be joined by industry experts, including Vinton Cerf of Google, Philip Rosedale of Linden Labs, Bradley Horowitz of Yahoo, and Daniel Scheinman of Cisco. The group will discuss the next killer application and explore the innovative culture of Silicon Valley and how new technologies are nurtured and developed into new business ecosystems.”
Sure, it sounds dry as toast. But you have a stellar cast of what’s-next thinkologists just a few pixels away from you. If you want the insider’s look at the next killer app, I urge you to attend; I’ll be there too. Resist if you can, though, the very tempting desire to pepper Lord Linden (Rosedale) with snotty questions about why we still can’t rezz objects properly because of asset issues.
June 14th, 2007 • 
Evansmom Goodspeed • 
comment | June 16, 2007 at 17:36 | individual comment-link
On March 2007, Alessandro Sorbello of New Realm Media http://www.newrealm.com.au interviewed Dr Vinton Cerf who was in Brisbane Australia to present ‘Internet, Infinity and Beyond’ excerpts from Dr. Cerf’s presentation are available online at New Realm. Mr Sorbello http://www.AlessandroSorbello.com posed questions to Dr. Cerf relating to the development of the Internet and its role in today’s society and what we can expect in the future. The interplanetary internet is set to change the face of communication not only on our planet, but also in the way we communicate with our technology in space.
Dr. Cerf replied when asked a question by Mr Sorbello, “I can speculate about one other thing a large number of senses are going to be on the network, billions of these things scattered a letter the world in parks, building stinky wearing ties its in offices at that time in order to keep track for example what’s going on in the world around us and global warming is a big issue in some of the things that we need to know are going to be derived from major sensory networks which a part of the network but also you can imagine the systems are aware of this building like it and when here who is in here and how should I adapt my behaviour to be more effective for the people who are in here that kind of responsiveness is possible as the world in which we live in becomes more aware of us as opposed to how we have to adapt to it.”