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Done well, I think online-first is soon going to be way better. Just as digital text done right gets way better (hypertext etc) than paper. Need a word for this. Hypercommunity/hyperevent like hypertext. 😎 The physical-presence-necessary will shrink party —> meetups —> sex
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I've been biting my tongue for about two weeks now: "Remote conference" completely misunderstands the purpose of conferences and is DOA. The entire point of a conference is that it's not remote.
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The mode I’d like to see tried is federated local, with modest travel to crosspollinate local cells. Form local cells of ~15 with access to zoom rooms. 1 person from each cell randomly flies to another cell for the event.
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TikTok is hyperdancing. Dance has been eaten by software. Goal: Spacer worlds of Asimov. Everybody gets to live in a clean low-density virtual planet and visit the disease-ridden caves of steel wearing N95 masks on occasion. Or send robots. Mine will be named R. Daneel.
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