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Virtual communities can make the world a better place. or they can manipulate elections by spreading hate messages en conspiracy theories. Or they can manipulate the stock markets in a so-called anti-establishment frenzy, which is no more that a thin veil hiding resentment, hate and greed. Revolutions are not always pretty to look at.

The time has come, said Re, for AI scientists to focus on higher-level tasks such as bringing domain expertise to AI rather than twiddling hyper-parameter settings of neural networks.

Scientific experts recognize that building and scaling quantum-protected and enhanced communication networks are among the most important technological frontiers of the 21st century. The international research community perceives the construction of a first prototype global quantum network-the Quantum Internet-to be within reach over the next decade.

the example given is about journalism, in the roleplaying people are the staff of a newspaper in distress

"We provide access to open source meeting and conferencing tools, powered by BigBlueButton, running on cooperatively owned infrastructure. We are part of the commons economy."

Scoble's musing are as always interesting. He also provides a 'future signal' by referring to a patent by Apple for a wearable which potentially could warn you have COVID-19 or other diseases before you even have any obvious physical symptoms.

Wiki.js is a Javascript-based wiki you can run on your computer or (better) in the cloud. It is open source and based on Node. It uses any of a number of database engines and runs on most platforms. There are modules available that allow you to run analytics, use social authentication, and choose the content editor you wish to use, and sync and backup your content to a number of storage services.

I really think RoamResearch has some unique features and pulls it all together in a new way. Maybe that bidirectional links (subject of this video) are not unique, but the way they use unlinked references and play with the sidebar is pretty amazin.

Oculus Quest, hence Facebook, tries to make inroads into the market for company and work-related products and services

I checked this out on my Oculus Quest. The Quest has a passthrough feature, enabling you to see the real world once you get outside the virtual gamezone. However, that cannot be compare to 'real' AR goggles such as the Hololens. All of which means that inside the Quest the VR meetings are not holographic, but just VR - but even so rather interesting.

The Future of work as imagined at Facebook, the company which now stimulates its employees to work from home

It's a foregone conclusion that everybody in the world will be a gamer someday. There are only a billion active gamers today. Someday there will be 7 billion, 8 billion active gamers. The growth opportunity for gaming is still well ahead of us. Gaming is the only entertainment that can be any entertainment. You and I both know that when the metaverse [arrives], we're going to spend a lot more time in game worlds, not just to game, but just to hang out, to be with people, to interact with people. The gaming market has a great future ahead of it.

Transscript of DWeb panel. "Many of us know that the Internet is broken, so how do we build something better? On September 22, DWeb San Francisco invited a panel of experts to share their views on the most viable paths forward. The panelists included author & EFF advisor Cory Doctorow, Matrix.org co-founder Amandine Le Pape, decentralized social media researcher Jay Graber, and TechDirt's Mike Masnick. They covered a range of approaches - including technical, regulatory, and organizational - that could bring us towards a future where our networks are more resilient, participatory, and decentralized."

Now that we have NFT's, next are DAO's

Where not-so-utopian cities are unveiled (and Invisible cities become real). Also technologies play a foundamental role.

Wild applause from the Chinese Overlords.