Notes from my opening comments at a recent Metaverse working group meeting — Thoughts on minimal requirements for building a sustainable ecosystem of value creation in any prospective ‘Metaverse’, with examples from Second Life and other worlds: Creative Building Blocks The world must have some sort of building blocks that are sufficient to enable people to create interesting things that will be of value to others…

Update August 2022 — the hottest new algorithm on the AI Art scene is Stable Diffusion. Click here to read my Stable Diffusion tutorial. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to use the state-of-the-art in AI image generation technology — VQGAN and CLIP — to create unique, interesting and…

Society is what Deleuze and Guattari would describe as a striated space, and social networks can’t live there. An striated space is heterogeneous: to move a person or a message across it you have to continuously modify and adjust them, with every interaction being highly contextual, and every long-distance movement…