{"id":853,"date":"2006-04-10T09:01:07","date_gmt":"2006-04-10T14:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=853"},"modified":"2006-04-19T21:10:16","modified_gmt":"2006-04-20T02:10:16","slug":"future-making-and-worldchanging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=853","title":{"rendered":"Future-Making and WorldChanging"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yet another interesting entry over on WorldChanging, this time penned by Alex Steffen. The post, “Future-Making” (Link)<\/a>, touches on what “reBang” is really all about now.<\/p>\n

Initially I came up with the name and the idea mostly in the thought that industrial designers would help to build a virtual world and it would be tied to the real one. Considering my background in product design, CAD and rapid-prototyping, this wasn’t really much of a stretch (especially if you know that reading William Gibson’s collection of short stories in “Burning Chrome<\/a>” had a major impact on my life). What I’ve since gained, spending time these last few years exploring videogames and virtual spaces, is an appreciation for networking technologies’ potential for significant social impact ; how virtual spaces can go well beyond the material. It’s why it was important for me to write that entry over on the SL Future Salon<\/a> about my experience with the (supposedly) Chinese worker in Second Life<\/a>, because whether or not the person’s circumstances were an illusion, what I learned about possibilities was very real.<\/p>\n

Anyway, be sure to give the article a read. Besides, I’m happy to see that my old semi-tutorial<\/a> explaining how to mash-up real world video with videogame machinima has gotten some use. I wish I had time to play with that stuff, but right now I’d like to see if there’s a smart way to build … I mean, grow<\/em> … environmentally-friendly homes for hermit crabs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yet another interesting entry over on WorldChanging, this time penned by Alex Steffen. The post, “Future-Making” (Link), touches on what “reBang” is really all about now. Initially I came up with the name and the idea mostly in the thought … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}