Baby Pachyderm: Yoga, Virtual Berkeley, World University Endowment

Yoga makes the bodymind well, and it seems to affect so many aspects of the body beneficially.


I'd like to make the city of Berkeley in a virtual world, both in the present, and as Berkeley in the 1960s and 1970s, with all its aliveness, in so many ways. Berkeley was pretty heady and trippy then, so modeling these freedoms in a virtual world like Second Life would be very interesting. And researching this, too, would be fascinating. And then you could travel from virtual Berkeley to virtual Harbin Hot Springs in-world - from your library to your bathtub - which could be pretty wild, all on your developing MacBook. What might we find along the way?


Second Life has, or is, its own trippiness, with colorful bubbles floating by (in the past), and furries (some avatars look like furry creatures) walking around, and the ability to make anything, and communicate with anyone, anywhere, in new and novel ways. Its very virtual-worldness is trippy in its own right.


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I'd also like to generate an endowment for World University and School that is double Harvard's (which is around US $36.9 billion in 2008) over, say, 20 years. How to do this?



Heading to the Harbin pools soon . . .