Sorin Adam Matei
Analysis, research, maps, and essays from Sorin Adam Matei.
Image via Wikipedia James Cameron‘s career is profiled by Wired in expectation of his latest release, Avatar. The movie has the ambition to be the best and most photorealistic 3d digital animation movie of the 21st century. It follows in Beowulf‘s footsteps,…
After screening 20 minutes of his coming sci-fi odyssey “Avatar” at this year’s Comic-Con International and unveiling the trailer for the film on Apple on Thursday, Cameron went above and beyond the call of duty Friday with a free 16-minute sneak peek…
Submitted by Pamela Morris on November 26, 2007 to the On-line Interaction and Facilitation Seminar, Fall 2007, Purdue University, Dr. Sorin A. Matei via the I Think Blog (http://www.matei.org/ithink). “An (online) host is like a host at a party. You don’t automatically…
Right, they’ll teach this old pony a new trick… BBC NEWS | Technology | Online worlds to be AI incubators Online worlds such as Second Life will soon become training grounds for artificial intelligences. Researchers at US firm Novamente have created software…
Peter Ludlow’s (aka Urizenus Sklar) adventures in cyberspace, especially in what is now known as the Metaverse, are legendary and the stuff of legend. His latest book, coming up in October, which I had the privilege to read as a pre-print manuscript,…
This series of Business Week articles maps out more than a year of high hopes and incredile public mood swings related to the newly minted Second Life 3D virtual reality environment (Update April 19: The Business Week search engine seems to be…
The US vs. Google lawsuit is looming. At first sight the issue at stake is the US government’s right to demand US media companies to provide data about the aggregated habits of US consumers. In the background, the issue seems to be…