Category: World Running π
Posts and notes about the emerging discipline of world running
Unstoppable, Infinitely Moddable, Autonomous Worlds
Unstoppable, Infinitely Moddable, Autonomous Worlds are coming.
Goncharov’s New Dabloons | 2242
It’s not the truth of a cultural object that matters. But the collective truth that arises from consensus of interpretation.
Metaverse: As Good a Word as Any | 2239
In the twilight age of Web 2, Metaverse is as good a word as any for people who wish to re-imagine the future of the internet
Mickey in the Metaverse | 2235
As a symbol of the copyright regime of the 20thC. A permissive Mickey in the metaverse seems like an interesting experiment to try.
In the Other Room
After a few minutes of careful listening I said ‘It sounds like a man peeing into a bucket standing up next to a washing machine’. The ‘correct’ answer was ‘A field recording of jungle cicada’s next to a stream’.
Metaverse & Monsters | Thoughts on One D&D
For nearly 50 years D&D has been container for managing how people should interact and behave with one another, together, In a shared place.
How The World Alive, Swings
How Swing, Jazz, Ritual, Folktales, Pop Songs, DAOs and Virtual Worlds, Weed and the Metaverse are all connected.
Pinball Wizard | 2228
Pinball Wizard is the name for a 1970’s cyborg. People who first entered a world inside a machine and ‘touched’ the metaverse.
Evenly Distributed | 2226
In 1974 on the PLATO mainframe system there was a 32-player 3D networked first person space flight simulation game.
Navigation Styles | 2225
A world has to allow players to change their play style as they learn more about themselves in the context of the world.
Win Condition | 2224
The ultimate victory condition in the most popular online worlds right now is to be left alone.
Lost Zone. Hiking the Dawn of Metaverse
I just received my contributors copy of Lost Zone. Hiking the Dawn of Metaverse. A book about Active Worlds – the 90’s metaverse project.
Brainworms | 2222
‘Someone has brainworms’, is a recognition that an individual is behaving in a way not congruent with dominant cultural logics.
Metaverse as Medium | 2220
Why I think the metaverse is important, MUDs, the web as 30 year long distraction, and why worlding worlds means shaping reality.
Marriage in the Metaverse | 2218
8th May 1996, 26 years ago tomorrow. Tomas Landhaus and Janka Stanhope were married in the metaverse. Plus my chapter in the new book Lost Zone.
Wind-up Worlds
Wind-up Worlds, Web3, World Running and the urgent collective pivot we need to make towards Slow Social experiences.