Just published a first NFT on OpenSea, The Metaverse Then and Now. It’s the pixelated version of a picture made in-world in the virtual world of Second Life. It's a picture of one of the oldest virtual objects, referred to as the The Man statue. The statue was made by the avatar oldjohn Linden in 2002. The maker of the picture had nothing to do with the creation of the statue and is not the owner of it. I also listed a second NFT, AI Enters Multi-User Dungeon. Screenshot of an AI-interve...

Just published a first NFT on OpenSea, The Metaverse Then and Now. It’s the pixelated version of a picture made in-world in the virtual world of Second Life. It's a picture of one of the oldest virtual objects, referred to as the The Man statue. The statue was made by the avatar oldjohn Linden in 2002. The maker of the picture had nothing to do with the creation of the statue and is not the owner of it. I also listed a second NFT, AI Enters Multi-User Dungeon. Screenshot of an AI-interve...

Trying out a new experiment,making a screen recording of a mind map slideshow. I made this mind map some years ago, loosely inspired by the book From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism by Fred Turner. “Shedding new light on how our networked culture came to be, this fascinating book reminds us that the distance between the Grateful Dead and Google, between Ken Kesey and the computer itself, is not as great as we might thi...

Trying out a new experiment,making a screen recording of a mind map slideshow. I made this mind map some years ago, loosely inspired by the book From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism by Fred Turner. “Shedding new light on how our networked culture came to be, this fascinating book reminds us that the distance between the Grateful Dead and Google, between Ken Kesey and the computer itself, is not as great as we might thi...

In the first post of this series I wrote about the philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) and his essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1935). There is another text I really find fascinating - but difficult. The text, The Origin of German Tragic Drama (Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels), offers a weird reading experience. I got glimpses of understanding, of something which one could call “the truth” of that text, but only glimpses and there is no truth I can somehow ...

In the first post of this series I wrote about the philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) and his essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1935). There is another text I really find fascinating - but difficult. The text, The Origin of German Tragic Drama (Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels), offers a weird reading experience. I got glimpses of understanding, of something which one could call “the truth” of that text, but only glimpses and there is no truth I can somehow ...

The Metaverse Then and Now

The Metaverse Then and Now

Testing out this platform and saying hello to all those participating here. I’m interested in all things Metaverse. I also believe that looking into the past of the Metaverse helps us to prepare the future.

Testing out this platform and saying hello to all those participating here. I’m interested in all things Metaverse. I also believe that looking into the past of the Metaverse helps us to prepare the future.

Philosophy to me is a way to clarify the conceptual lense we use to look at the world. There is always a lense, we always use conceptual structures to interpret the world. Clarification often also leads to inspiration, or so I hope, also regarding “the metaverse'“ and “NFTs”. In this first post of a series, I’ll do some brief studies of philosophers who can offer insights about the metaverse and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). In later posts the list can be expanded or modified. “Metaverse” ...

Philosophy to me is a way to clarify the conceptual lense we use to look at the world. There is always a lense, we always use conceptual structures to interpret the world. Clarification often also leads to inspiration, or so I hope, also regarding “the metaverse'“ and “NFTs”. In this first post of a series, I’ll do some brief studies of philosophers who can offer insights about the metaverse and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). In later posts the list can be expanded or modified. “Metaverse” ...