Charlie Stross in Second Life this Saturday

Posted by Cory Doctorow, June 17, 2008 10:46 PM | permalink

Wagner James Au sez, "Extropia, a large and prestigious futurist/transhumanist city in Second Life, will host Charles Stross at Sophrosyne's Special Salon, this Saturday, June 21, from 1-2:30 pm Pacific. Charlie will discuss the Singluarity in fiction, cutting-edge technologies, his Hugo-Award finalist novel Halting State, about virtual worlds and augmented reality, and his upcoming novel Saturn's Children. All event info at the link." Link (Thanks, James!)

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#1 posted by Jeff , June 18, 2008 5:12 AM

I haven't had much interest in finding yet another place to waste my time, but perhaps I'll enter Second Life just for the Uber-Stross. What's his avatar look like? A kill-bot of some sort? Charles Stross's work is soooooo good.

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#2 posted by Bloo , June 18, 2008 6:30 AM

I've asked this elsewhere, and perhaps once on Boing-Boing (but I can't remember)...

Has anyone taken Second Life's open-sourced client and created a client that will run with lower-end graphics boards or indeed with graphics that come built-in to motherboards these days? I realize this could result in Clints and Brandies showing up in larger numbers, but it could also provide the critical mass to make SL the progenitor of something like the Metaverse

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#3 posted by Michael R. Bernstein