Thoughts of a TechnoWizard

I try to practice my talk for tomorrow's Concentric design conference... But I struggle to keep myself within a short time frame. Idk how I'm going to do this... But I'm excited to try!!

Education should be a lifelong institution for solving real world problems. Instead of schools as we have them now, we should have library-like facilities and intranets where people can 'check out' a course on any subject. Folks should be prompted and given the resources to not just solve random problems, but instead be directed to ask why.. to find the causes behind the symptoms.. to learn the context and work with the people suffering those problems. Then, they should be able to collaborate on a project with an interdisciplinary team with people of differing levels of experience. As they near the implementation of the project, they should test the product or service in real world scenarios. Once they implement the project, they should measure it's impact and iterate accordingly. Every project should therefore be an ongoing process done by multiple generations of people. And the whole thing is an interconnected system. Thus is the future of education: Lifelong learning, project based, real world, collaborative, measurable, iterative, contextual, and meaningful.

XR is more than just VR and AR. We can also consider computers, cars, and every other technology as an extension of our reality in some way. Our ideas and language is also an extension of reality. Thus I talk about how and why we need to consciously consider what parts of reality we are extending and how we are doing so. Does that leave our world in a better or worse state? I also talk a little about the concept of good and evil, holistic design, and general updates about my life and my goals.

Inspired by one of my Discord friends, I share my worries, thoughts, and ideas about climate change and how not talking about this topic just makes the situation worse. Environmentalism, social justice, the global north vs south, Israel-Palestine, acceleration of ideas and so much more...

What is the effectiveness and role of revolutions in the long term? What is the role of violence in revolution? I had a long and difficult conversation about that on Friday. There is much I have to learn before I can delve into it here indepth... I also talk a bit about what my family found about our Native American lineage, and then talk about my experience with being in a long term relationship.

The internet is transitioning more and more into an interconnected web of metaverses, but why do we not have the ability to move our accounts, posts, and creations from one platform to another? This is one of the many problems we hope to solve in the Open Metaverse Interoperability group. I talk about my experience attending OMI meetings and then go into my first full experience with the Oculus Quest. I end with a description of my business plan and ask for help! Please HMU if you are or know of someone that can be my CTO!

The world is full of incompetence. BBVA has an absolutely terrible banking experience, especially with their mobile app. DCAU is great, but their cohesion is severely lacking (and HBO Max doesn't even try to help by putting them in a nice little playlist). Background Checks aren't actually effective at creating a safer workplace. And most egregiously to me right now, HTC Vive seems to be incapable of having the spine to stand up to Facebook even though they are by far the best company for the job. They could be the champion of the consumer and enterprise VR market alike, but their focus on enterprise doesn't live up to that potential for either. Instead, they seem focused on relegating themselves to a small segment of their true potential.

After discussing what I did for Mother's Day and my experience watching DC animated movies, I finally delve into my early ideas about the issues with Intellectual Property and make a pre-research case for why we should ban it and how it could make an actual free marketplace!

In this audiojournal entry, I share my struggles with feeling lonely due to not finding enough people to talk about and work on all the things in interested in. I then go on to discuss ideas around the problem with democratizing design, vilifying bias, and why specialization and diversity is so important for humanity.