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August 14, 2008

An Augmented Reality Metaverse

This kind of stuff (and thinking) gets my brain all atwitter (and this sort of co-opted, always-on, overlay-manic, robust-yet-still-fragile augmented reality is what I liked most about Vernor Vinge's "Rainbow's End")...

Open The Future: Making The Visible Invisible

"It seems likely to me that an augmented reality world that really takes off will out of necessity be one that offers freedom of use closer to that of the Internet than of the iPhone. Top-down control technologies will certainly make a play for the space, but simply won't be the kind of global catalyst for innovation that an open augmented reality web would be. An AR world dominated by closed, controlled systems will be safe, but have a limited impact."

[via Bruce Sterling's always-great Beyond The Beyond blog at Wired]

Clampants | August 14, 2008 12:52 PM