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OT: Living in a De-Material World - Blog Post on Aces

Hey All,

Interesting stuff but I see a lot of people way too full of themselves and virtual technology. Consider this from the comments...

Take it even further and picture yourself inviting a professional contact to come and meet you in the virtual park outside your virtual office in Virtual Earth, where your avatars sit on a bench together while you IM or talk via voice about, say, an upcoming business trip. Give it five years and this style of communication and collaboration will be commonplace.
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Are they kidding! Obama's avatar meeting all the other G8 avatars to discuss world economics!?!? I already do several conference calls and net meetings and it is clear human face to face (F2F) is absolutely critical - no computer will ever 100% accurately simulate the real world.

Simulation is a powerful tool - I've been modeling different ecological things for over 25 years - biggest lesson learned - you can't fool or outpredict mother nature.

The problem fundamentally is - keeping the line between reality (truth) and simulation (false) clear. The other and perhaps more important problem from a human perspective is using simulation to "duck" the real world.

The author of the original piece said it best here...

Flight-SIM remains an incredible way to lose hours of your life. Just wait til you can get your hands on the rest of it
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I fully support simulation going forward - the issue is maintaining the distinction and balance between reality and the virtual world and that is completely a people thing.

-Ed-
 
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