Rats! I'm working until 9 that night. Great topic. Sorry to miss it. : (
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Scoles Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2011 3:19 PM To: r-spec Subject: R-SPEC January: The Futurology of Social Media & Networked Life At this Tuesday's R-SPEC meeting, I'll be looking at the futurology of social media & networked life. Which is the bigger deal: Flying cars & jetpacks, or ubiquitous personal mobile phones? Living on the Moon, or continually broadcasting and localizing ourselves here on Earth via Twitter & Foursquare? 20 minutes from NY to Paris, undersea by rail -- or kids in Sri Lanka teaching themselves molecular biology with the help of "grannies" in Edinburgh? Going to a virtual world holographically -- or bringing a virtual world into our own space, with that mobile phone? I'll try to position us in our augmented and socially-networked present, present some thoughts on who did and didn't "predict" where we find ourselves (and how), and maybe we can all try to figure out where we might be going. Hope to see you there! -- -- eric scoles | [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en.
