 , project manager for the
Metaverse Roadmap at the non-profit Acceleration
Studies Foundation, has a background in business
and non-profit governance. She previously brought
together game designers and researchers as a
co-organizer of Ludium1 at Indiana University.
She was also profiled as an online player for
CNN, Newsweek, & USA Today.
What is your most
fervent hope for the future of networked
technologies? Shared experiences are
bonding experiences. So people in virtual worlds
– the kids growing up who have these
experiences in spaces that not tied to geography
form bonds with people. They go out and hunt
their dragons or they share their taste in music
or whatever they do. As they grow up and they
become policymakers and they hold positions of
power, it is so much less likely that they will
be able to look and say, "it's us and
them," because maybe they once had an
experience with somebody in Japan, when we get
broadband across the world there will be people
in Indonesia they're connected with, so
it's that much less likely that they'll
be able to say, "this is an us and
that's a them, so we can drop bombs on
them." World peace comes from the
interconnectivity of people growing up like this
… That's what I think this is going to
do – big-time. What technology
will have the greatest impact on our everyday
lives the next 10 years? (People will
find that) if there is some need they have in
their everyday life, there is very likely
somebody working on a technology to automate that
and make that easier … Pick something that
you're having to do over and over and
somebody is working at making it easier for
you. Looking out more
than 10 years, what development will have the
greatest impact on society? Well, 10
years from now you have one level of baby boomers
who will be gone. So you're 10 years on with
people who understand this intuitively. They
understand the way of thinking with a "hive
mind," with a brain with an external hard
drive; they've grown up with Google. So,
technologically I think (the big thing will be)
pervasive computing, the fact that your phone,
your watch, and - God knows - your shoes and all
those things will be … you'll have the
resources of the history of mankind that you can
touch at any moment - pervasive computing that
you will have with your body. What do you think
policymakers should do to ensure a positive
future for networked technologies? Keep
their hands off. Treat it like – we
didn't need to do a whole lot with print,
right? Print was adopted pretty quickly after the
Gutenberg Bible and has worked pretty well. Radio
– radio was developed pretty much without
government. It's strong enough to do it on
its own and we don't need a lot of
restrictions and government impositions and we
don't need a lot of safety mechanisms. I
think the marketplace covers that. I like age
limits and age restrictions, but other than that
I feel like the best thing is let the marketplace
– let the demand – pull it
along. |
