Scott MacLeod's Anthropology of Information Technology & Counterculture: Understory: Attended MIT prof Kerstin Perez's talk at Stanford on Dark Matter - https://events.stanford.edu/events/672/67201 … How will this emerge in realistic virtual cosmos?, Greatly enjoyed MIT Prof Kerstin Perez's @Swexicana https://events.stanford.edu/events/672/67201 … Agree w @LatourBot https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/854478351804751872 … re coding for physics, How will Google's TensorFlow & Streetview help to code for physics re Dark Matter re https://events.stanford.edu/events/681/68151/ … & https://events.stanford.edu/events/672/67201 … talks, When will the realistic virtual earth/cosmos generation gold rush in all 8 k languages begin - https://twitter.com/KlondikeAKNPS/status/854758352936509440 …? with time slider?!!!, Enjoyed new Stanford Professor Antero Garcia, Dungeons & Dragons virtual gaming talk, "Galaxies' growth: Mind-expanding ... " "... with 4 "MIT Media Lab Light Bulbs" ... in augmented illuminated reality around us ... into a football field stadium?"

Attended MIT prof Kerstin Perez's talk at Stanford on Dark Matter https://events.stanford.edu/events/672/67201 … How will this emerge in realistic virtual cosmos?

‏ @LatourBot

The problem is precisely that we must avoid trying to bring order too quickly to these muddled scripts.

Attending MIT prof Kerstin Perez's talk at Stanford on Dark Matter https://t.co/fVohL5DS3P How will this emerge in realistic virtual cosmos? https://t.co/7RDF2cBnJV
— scottmacleod (@scottmacleod) April 18, 2017

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/854477355124838400

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Greatly enjoyed MIT Prof Kerstin Perez's @Swexicana https://events.stanford.edu/events/672/67201 … Agree w @LatourBot https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/854478351804751872 … re coding for physics

Greatly enjoyed MIT Prof Kerstin Perez's @Swexicana https://t.co/PiFCKCHYVU Agree w @LatourBot https://t.co/UWxXaEXIiK re coding for physics
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) April 19, 2017

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/854504791912833024

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How will Google's TensorFlow & Streetview help to code for physics re Dark Matter re https://events.stanford.edu/events/681/68151/ … & https://events.stanford.edu/events/672/67201 … talks
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/854559718219501573

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When will the realistic virtual earth/cosmos generation gold rush in all 8 k languages begin - https://twitter.com/KlondikeAKNPS/status/854758352936509440 …? with time slider?!!!

When will the realistic virtual earth/cosmos generation gold rush in all 8 k languages begin - https://t.co/ruPzSGrgwE? with time slider?!!!
— scottmacleod (@scottmacleod) April 20, 2017

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/854858214562603011

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"There are valleys unpeopled and still;
There’s a land—oh, it beckons and beckons,
I want to go back— and I will"
-Robert Service#alaska pic.twitter.com/dkbYD8qp3s
— Klondike Gold Rush (@KlondikeAKNPS) April 19, 2017

https://twitter.com/KlondikeAKNPS/status/854758352936509440

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Re: [Air-L] Call for Chapters: Alternate Reality Games and the Cusp of Digital Gameplay
Hi Antero,

I enjoyed your excellent talk -
https://events.stanford.edu/events/679/67981/ - at Stanford yesterday a lot. Thank you. And congratulations on becoming a professor at Stanford - so great!

Looking forward to staying in touch about what you're teaching and researching as well as potentially about ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - and what we corresponded about in June 2014 (where my chapter proposal for which may become my 3rd book in some years).

Do you know please of any film to interactive 3D virtual world conversion software on the horizon, especially for Google Streetview/Maps/Earth with Time Slider (and group build-able like OpenSim/SL) by any chance per -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/02/gyps-himalayensis-realistic-virtual.html - and -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/10/naked-harbin-ethno-wiki-virtual-world.html
- for example?

And, just as a heads' up, I'm seeking to develop a realistic virtual earth for STEM research and as a classroom (and in all 7,099 living languages), and at the atomic, cellular and street view levels, where we could, for example, add videos of virtual world gaming, which would also then become interactive (possibly Google-centric). It would be great to stay in touch about this as well.

Thank you.

Best regards,
Scott

On 6/17/14 12:43 PM, Scott MacLeod wrote:
> Dear Antero,
>
> Thanks for this "Call for Chapters." I enjoyed your observations here
> about Gaming at about the 11:30 minute mark -
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwNjUnQr1Is (which I found here -
> http://www.theamericancrawl.com/?p=1425).
>
> I'm writing to explore the possibility of writing a chapter for your
> edited volume. I've just completed writing a 400 page draft manuscript
> of my actual / virtual Harbin Hot Springs ethnographic book tentatively
> entitled something like “Naked Harbin: Harbin Hot Springs'
> Actual/Virtual Ethnography ~ Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture &
> Clothing-Optional, Virtual Harbin." My actual anthropological field
> site, Harbin Hot Springs, is in northern California -
> http://www.harbin.org/ - and, as part of my methodology for this first
> book, I come into conversation with Tom Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in
> Second Life" (Princeton 2008); I'm planning to submit a book proposal to
> Yale University Press after receiving photo permissions from Harbin for
> this first book, hopefully soon.
>
> For my second Harbin ethnographic book, I'm planning to build a virtual
> Harbin Hot Springs in something like OpenSim, and
> experienceable/viewable in the Oculus Rift - see, for example ...
> http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/06/hazel-how-generative-might-we-make.html
> - where the building will involve creating a field site for actual /
> virtual anthropological comparison, and even for something that I'm
> calling "ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy" as a new methodology (see, for
> example ...
> http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy).
> While actual Harbin emerges out of the 1960s and is kind of 'New Age
> California' in ethos, in my interpretation, I think Harbin's alternative
> culture emerges significantly from its clothing-optional warm pool and
> the effects of warm waters on both visitors and Harbin residents alike.
> I see a kind of far-reaching relaxation response meditation emerging
> from this influencing all of Harbin, and possibly since 1972 when
> Harbin's founder Ishvara, who still lives on property, bought Harbin and
> soon thereafter turned it into Heart Consciousness Church, possibly
> partly as a hippie tax dodge, I would hazard. In building the virtual
> Harbin, I'd like to explore the possibility of generating such freedoms
> as those, which people find on-the-ground there digitally. I'd like the
> building of an eventually movie-realistic interactive virtual Harbin to
> dovetail with a similarly emergent virtual earth.
>
> I see actual Harbin as well as the virtual Harbin to come as kinds of
> alternate reality.
>
> Would it be possible to explore please writing a chapter for Sections 1
> or 2 or 3 of your and Greg's edited volume? From your current thinking,
> which section would likely be the best fit?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Friendly greetings,
> Scott
>
>
>
> - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President

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