http://clipmarks.com/clipper/Ryan%20Rasmussen/clipper/Ryan+Rasmussen/tag/long+now/http://rss.clipmarks.com/clipper/Ryan%20Rasmussen/clipper/Ryan+Rasmussen/tag/long+now/15Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/C5D74447-7248-4B5E-9FAB-0DCA72139BE6/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/Ryan+Rasmussen/">Ryan Rasmussen</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> Incredibly inspiring forecast of the potential to commune with digital ghosts. - persistent existence less consciousness<br/><br/>Jones - "Creating a copy of online behavior and programming an avatar to respond to stimuli in the way the user has been during their digital life is not suggesting consciousness, merely sophisticated replication. This scenario has some intriguing consequences. Amongst them are the possibilities an individual could leave money to their avatar rather than their children in order to support their avatar afterlife, or that future generations would have access to a representation of their ancestors – but would having access to the temporal wisdom of our forebears be of any use? A digital representation of life could continue unhindered in a virtual environment, after real-life has ended." <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://blog.longnow.org/2007/10/12/avatar-afterlife/" title="http://blog.longnow.org/2007/10/12/avatar-afterlife/">blog.longnow.org</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/image_cache/Ryan Rasmussen/512/B7601239-D74C-481B-9D10-4896A7C9B2F3.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H2><A title="Permanent Link: Avatar Afterlife" rel="bookmark" href="http://blog.longnow.org/2007/10/12/avatar-afterlife/">Avatar Afterlife</A></H2></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><SMALL>October 12th, 02007 by Alexander Rose </SMALL></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman"> are on the verge of introducing systems to monitor their users online activity in order to better direct advertising toward them. It doesn’t seem long before this kind of marketing system will also be applied to virtual worlds. The process of distilling an individual’s online behavior into a digital profile is currently driven by the commercial needs of advertising but it is possible to imagine it being used in more creative ways. The software used to track the online behavior of users, within in particular system (virtual worlds or social networks) could be modified to track the entirety of their online behavior, over a longer space of time – say thirty years. At the end of this period the data could be used to program an avatar. This avatar would inhabit a virtual world or worlds and be programmed with all the users personal data, preferences and potential responses– would this lead to an avatar afterlife?</FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman">Roderick Jones</FONT></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/second+life/" rel="tag">second life</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/virtual+telepresence/" rel="tag">virtual telepresence</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/afterlife/" rel="tag">afterlife</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/long+now/" rel="tag">long now</a></div>http://blog.longnow.org/2007/10/12/avatar-afterlife/Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:52:46 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/B31BF558-5C53-4BBF-BEC7-1D2681FAEF57/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/Ryan+Rasmussen/">Ryan Rasmussen</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> The Long Now Foundation's virtual reception for Brian Eno's 77 Million Paintings exhibit in Second Life. <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://blip.tv/file/287552?filename=Rasmussen-77MillionPaintingsTheLongNowFoundationInSecondLife157.flv" title="http://blip.tv/file/287552?filename=Rasmussen-77MillionPaintingsTheLongNowFoundationInSecondLife157.flv">blip.tv</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/second+life/" rel="tag">second life</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/cyrus+huffhines/" rel="tag">cyrus huffhines</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/the+long+now+foundation/" rel="tag">the long now foundation</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/long+now/" rel="tag">long now</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/brian+eno/" rel="tag">brian eno</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/77+million+paintings/" rel="tag">77 million paintings</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/blueair.tv/" rel="tag">blueair.tv</a></div>http://blip.tv/file/287552?filename=Rasmussen-77MillionPaintingsTheLongNowFoundationInSecondLife157.flvMon, 02 Jul 2007 14:31:22 GMT