Comments on: William Gibson – the novelty of ‘non-mediated’ experience/2007/08/14/william-gibson-the-novelty-of-non-mediated-experience/Andrew Curry's blog on futures, trends, emerging issues and scenariosFri, 29 Apr 2011 14:07:45 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Logging in to Log Off: Non-Mediated Nostalgia and the Point of No Return | Learn Out Live!/2007/08/14/william-gibson-the-novelty-of-non-mediated-experience/#comment-2962Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:07:45 +0000/2007/08/14/william-gibson-the-novelty-of-non-mediated-experience/#comment-2962[…] it.Beyond that, we’re overtaken by a new sense of nostalgia.William Gibson once said in an interview:All of the questions we used to ask about cyberspace are now more rewardingly asked about […]

]]>By: Bryan Loar/2007/08/14/william-gibson-the-novelty-of-non-mediated-experience/#comment-652Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:08:44 +0000/2007/08/14/william-gibson-the-novelty-of-non-mediated-experience/#comment-652It is certainly interesting to see how mediated worlds intersect with real life (RL). I read some time back how Linden Lab hosted a party in RL and folks in Second Life (SL) joined them via flat screen monitors (folks in RL had a video feed of themselves in SL).

MIT’s Technology Review has an interesting article about how these worlds collide (a href=”https://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18888/”>Second Earth, July, 2007 – subscription only access). Specifically, it speculates what it would be like if there were a mashup of Google Earth & SL. However, it did indicate that such a mashup would not quite create a metaverse.

I think Gibson is on the right track, though. I think our environments will continually be digitally renegotiated/mediated. I think it is a logical progression from what we’ve been doing all along–renegotiating reality within our minds.

Great post! Thanks for adding your blog to WPP.

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