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Why Nonprofits Need to Be Early Explorers of the Metaverse

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In this early stage, the metaverse is being envisioned and portrayed as an online reality that we humans enter and experience as avatars through a VR headset, similar to the Oasis experience in the movie Ready Player One. There I was, being virtually groped in a snowy fortress with my brother-in-law and husband watching. Get the idea?

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The One-Look Virus and Immersive Environments for Teaching and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I don't think she is saying SL is a fad that will go away as other people without her depth of knowledge have articulated. Six worlds, avatars, lots of chat and even then screens receiving video for. web geeks and cardboard cutout avatars. There is an egalitarian equalizing effect when your avatar IMs with another ???

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If we’d had Twitter on 9/11

Connection Cafe

And my Mom says she’ll never forget that her first knowledge of the events of the day came through my voice, whole and well, telling her to turn on the television. Or, more recently, how the native population in Avatar are connected to one another through a planetary-wide nervous system. No satellite radio yet.

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Live Blog: Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights

Amy Sample Ward

The access to information drives knowledge. Andrew Keen: The wall in Berlin was open by accident by a guard, so you could argue that the internet is a distribution of knowledge so that would have never happened. So, this organization of knowledge could actually be a good thing for demoralizing government.

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

Whether the tasks power autonomous weapons systems raining disaster down on slum districts or else power geographic data for humanitarian agencies that provide aid to such disaster zones is knowledge not available to the workers. 16 As corrupt avatars for big tech, microwork sites hide the new satanic mills of firms that ‘do no evil’.

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