For anyone in the DC area, the following event may be interesting...
Not directly AGI-relevant, but interesting in that one day virtual worlds like Second Life may be valuable for AGI in terms of giving them a place to play around and interact with humans, without need for advanced robotics... -- Ben G ********** Hello Futurists, A quick reminder that our November meeting is next Wednesday... On Weds. Nov. 8, 7-9 PM, the DC Future Salon will cover metaverse world development with Electric Sheep Company CEO Sibley Verbeck and other ESC staff members. To accommodate a more interactive online multimedia presentation, we will be meeting at ESC's offices in downtown DC, location below. LOCATION: (note - different from our usual location) 19th & L (red line to Farragut North) 1133 19th St., NW, on the 9th floor; shared offices with Common Cause WHEN: Wednesday, November 8, 2006 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM RECENT PRESS: http://www.electricsheepcompany.com/press.php DESCRIPTION: Several Electric Sheep Company staff members will be discussing the Metaverse Roadmap and Electric Sheep Company's role and activities in the roadmapping project. The Metaverse Roadmap (http://metaverseroadmap.org/) is a visioning and execution project sponsored by the Accelerating Change Foundation to develop a coherent path to the Internet dominated by 3D technology, social spaces and economies. The Electric Sheep Company is a DC-based interactive creation agency designing 3D sims and other products and services for Second Life. Electric Sheep Company's founder Sibley Verbeck was featured in Washington Techway Magazine as one of DC's top young technology executives and selected as one of MIT Technology Review's top 100 technology innovators worldwide under the age of 35 in 2003. Interview with Electric Sheep Company CEO Sibley "Hathor" Verbeck http://www.jasonpettus.com/inthegrid/2006/10/the_man_in_the_high_castle_an_1.html SECOND LIFE: Second Life is a 3-D virtual world started in 2003 by San Francisco-based Linden Lab. Users can sign up for free and create avatars to represent themselves; then start exploring the 3D world, interacting with others and creating objects. Second Life just reached over 1 million resident accounts with about half being active in the last 60 days. $7m USD worth of transactions is occurring in-world each month. FUTURE SALON SPEAKERS: Sibley "Sibley Hathor" Verbeck, CEO, Electric Sheep Company Jonah "Hank Hoodoo" Gold, COO, Electric Sheep Company Chris "Satchmo Prototype" Carella, Producer, Electric Sheep Company Becky "Digi Vox" Carella, Developer, Electric Sheep Company Bios: http://www.electricsheepcompany.com/people.php COST: Free NEXT MEETING: Weds, Dec 6: Specific topic TBD but in the general area of Artificial General Intelligence innovations with Dr. Moshe Looks. JOIN THE EMAIL LIST: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dcfuture/ ADD THE EVENT TO YOUR CALENDAR: http://upcoming.org/event/112608 THE SALON: The Washington DC Future Salon is part of a nationwide network of future salons discussing cutting edge science and technology innovations and their implications: http://accelerating.org/futuresalon.html YahooGroup and Homepage http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dcfuture/ http://www.agiri.org/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=33&t=127 <http://www.agiri.org/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=33&t=127> -- Melanie Swan Co-moderator DC Future Salon Phone: 415-505-4426 Fax: 801-772-6349 http://futurememes.blogspot.com http://www.melanieswan.com ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
