In Hindu philosophy the word avatar refers to a bodily manifestation of a higher being onto Earth. Avatars are resident’s manifestations in SL. These virtual bodies cannot feel pain and will not age unless you want them to. The resident’s relationship with the avatar is like an extension of themselves. They act through this in [...]

These days immersion is mainly found among resident whose SL behaviors emphasizes strong roleplay. In SL each resident have a profile. On one of the pages in this you can tell others about some real life facts about yourself; even show a picture. People who tend towards immersion will rarely show any information there. When [...]

The Virtual Workplace will become the rule. No need to leave the office. Just bring it along. Desk phones and desktop computers will gradually disappear, replaced by mobile devices, including laptops, that take on traditional office capabilities. Social networking tools and virtual world meeting experiences will simulate the feeling on being [...]

Following on from some of the ideas in the previous post Topotransegrity designed by Robert Neumayr explores how a responsive architecture can be introduced in public spaces challenging long-held assumptions about architecture as a passive arrangement It investigates todays networked ways that enable architecture itself to operate as an intelligent interface that connects spaces, users [...]

Smart textiles and wearable devices can monitor your vital signs as you go about daily life. These clever clothes already exist and look set to find a market niche especially in elite sport and healthcare, say European researchers
Could Clothes Be Made To Monitor Heart Beat, Other Vital Signs, Automatically?

Biomertic communities … who tunes in to [...]

But sustainabiity demands that we compromise; the biosphere cannot support the perpetually growing movement of goods and bodies around the world. We have to make the best we can of mediated presence.So we have to keep on trying. But there are more interesting tasks for design than the use of brute bandwidth to achieve ‘Being [...]

Subliminal perception, perception that occurs without conscious awareness, is not an anomaly, but the norm. As Tor Norretranders has explained, most of what we perceive in the world comes not from conscious observation but from a continuous process of unconscious scanning. During any given second, we consciously process only sixteen of the eleven million bits [...]

Traveling without moving has become an economic and environmental imperative. Matter is more expensive than energy; energy is more expensive than information; it is cheaper to move information, than people or things. So what is to stop us moving less, and and tele-communicating more?
Doors of Perception weblog: From MySpace to fakespace: How close are we [...]

Am Einfachsten verstehe ich es so: eine Familie, nicht am selben Ort lebend, twittert. So weiss jeder ständig, was mit dem Anderen ist. Man spart viel AbstimmungsZeit am Telefon und weiss immer, worüber man reden soll.
PR Blogger: Eine kleine Geschichte der Kommunikation
Das trifft es auf den Punkt … obwohl ich die Bindung zwischen Twitter-Familienmitgliedern als [...]

In a cyberpunked near-future, technology runs rampant, and usually manipulates most societal interactions. Dystopian near futures are very common, but so are futures where the impacts of specific technologies are played out in a world only slightly different from the present. Sacred societal boundaries are often crossed with regularity. Often the earth is severely damaged. [...]