Links for 16-07-2007
Stoddard on the metaverse, Dyson on biotech, technophobia from the Torygraph …
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1 – Crumbs on the Hors d’Ouevre Tray
“In fact, I’ll go on record as saying today, right now, I think virtual worlds will be a much larger revolution than the entire internet to date.” Jason Stoddard nay-says the metaverse nay-sayers.
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2 – “Second Life is the future of the 3D Web”
“The problem with this statement is that it demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of two important things: What Second Life is, and what the Web is.”
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3 – Mobile phones ‘dumbing down brain power’
“An over reliance on technology is leading to a dumbing down of the nation’s brain power, according a study published today.” The Torygraph revels in technophobia.
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4 – Our Biotech Future – an essay by Freeman Dyson
“It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.” This guy can think the socks off anyone.
