Through the Looking Glass of Virtual Reality

From “I think therefore I am” to “Thinking is the best way to travel” of so much of our knowledge base, VR and our perception of the real world is based upon the most fabulous, as yet unmatched, CPU – our brain. If we can imagine the power of taking a dizzying array of light [...]

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Hello world! 2.0

26 Feb 2008 Update: Be sure to watch Download: The True History of the Internet on the Science Channel starting March 3… Original posting 27 Dec 2007: The first computer program I typed in was on my VIC 20 (20K RAM) by Commodore, purchased from Sears, hooked up to a $10 B/W TV from a [...]

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Klaatu Barada Nikto (when’s lunch?)

OK, I’m an old guy. But way back before the beginning of time (you know, before competition reality TV), I was reading Heinlein and Asimov and Vonnegut. These old guys were writing about a future that we seem to be actually living today. I love the web. Here’s something I stumbled on, looking up references [...]

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Heinlein Lives

…and he built a crooked house. Not the Kirk Douglas movie, but the Robert A. Heinlein short story. Now in the Social Network rez Video Game, Second Life, comes word that someone has built a Tesseract House, in 4 dimensions. Holy Escher, Batman! Here’s the story…And He Rezzed a Crooked House. Heinlein is one of [...]

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