How The World Alive, Swings
How Swing, Jazz, Ritual, Folktales, Pop Songs, DAOs and Virtual Worlds, Weed and the Metaverse are all connected.
August 4, 2022Posts and notes about the emerging discipline of world running
How Swing, Jazz, Ritual, Folktales, Pop Songs, DAOs and Virtual Worlds, Weed and the Metaverse are all connected.
August 4, 2022Pinball Wizard is the name for a 1970's cyborg. People who first entered a world inside a machine and 'touched' the metaverse.
July 16, 2022In 1974 on the PLATO mainframe system there was a 32-player 3D networked first person space flight simulation game.
July 2, 2022A world has to allow players to change their play style as they learn more about themselves in the context of the…
June 25, 2022Learning to make moves with DALLΒ·E mini is about writing prompts that get the best from the subsurface potential in the machine…
June 19, 2022The ultimate victory condition in the most popular online worlds right now is to be left alone.
June 18, 2022I just received my contributors copy of Lost Zone. Hiking the Dawn of Metaverse. A book about Active Worlds - the 90's…
June 14, 2022'Someone has brainworms', is a recognition that an individual is behaving in a way not congruent with dominant cultural logics.
June 5, 2022Why I think the metaverse is important, MUDs, the web as 30 year long distraction, and why worlding worlds means shaping reality.
May 21, 20228th May 1996, 26 years ago tomorrow. Tomas Landhaus and Janka Stanhope were married in the metaverse. Plus my chapter in the…
May 7, 2022Wind-up Worlds, Web3, World Running and the urgent collective pivot we need to make towards Slow Social experiences.
May 6, 2022I've thinking about 'Nomic' this week. A game system created in 1982 by philosopher Peter Suber
March 27, 2022I spoke with Games Designer Paul Czege abut the emerging concept of World Running. We discuss the end of play as narrative…
September 14, 2021With Web3 enabled Permissive IP frameworks, Power Fandoms will own, produce and share the value created by their worlds. They are coming…
September 11, 2021