Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 17:41:01 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi-AT-statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Avatars:Bruce Damer and Cyberbiology -Technology Over the Edge    


Greetings technology lists,

Recently, Bruce Damer was at CyberForum-AT-artcenter.edu --discussed the
issues of "Avatars" and "Global Brain" in his chat session. 

The chat session (transcript is available) is at
<http://www.mheim.com/cyberforum/html/summer2k/log-S1.html> and more
details on *Bruce Damer* can be seen at <http://www.damer.com>

Hi..You might also be interested in one of my (many) cyber-explorations
-in A NEW book, "Avatars!: A Milestone Internet book: Introducing Avatar:
Cyberspace to a mass audience", written by Bruce Damer..his book is about
exploring and building virtual worlds on the Internet..

Bruce Damer is a key pioneer of Avatar Cyberspace. Please visit his 
Contact Consortium at <http://www.ccon.org> and he has also created a
Nerves project on the Internet known as biota.org, <http://www.biota.org>
-the Digital Biology Project..and is also known as a kind of "protoplasm
of cyberspace". Please check it out biota.org "vision", they are doing
different kind of digital biology projects..-their mission is to develop a
Cyberbiology: Artifical Life on the Internet....Please look for Bruce
Damer, Bruce Sterling, Richard Dawkins, Rudy Rucker with other research
scientists on "People" link at biota.org site. 

References:
-----------

Avatars!
<http://www.digitalspace.com/avatars/brochure.htm>

The HIGHLANDS Group: Bruce Damer's Interview at IDEAS and INNOVATORS
<http://www.highlandsgroup.net/static/news.html>

Xploration Article: The Coming of Inhabited Cyberspace, by Bruce Damer
<http://www.digitalspace.com/papers/xplor1.htm>

Sincerely
Arun Tripathi
Research Scholar
UNI DO, Germany
[Artificial Intelligence and Higher Education]
<http://www.angelfire.com/ks/learning/educate.html>






     --- from list technology-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---