Avatar in Dataspace

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Avatar in Dataspace

• Update 1.1

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The Ability to Understand Everything
Capability
Desirability
Possibility
Atoms to Bits Thoughts to Bytes
Unlimited Expression of Ourselves
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• Motivating Trends
• Technology
• Atoms to Bits
• Thoughts to Bytes
• Directing Life
• Diversification of Access Method
• I-con

facsimiles of ever bit of matter in the world, we
can use this capability to do anything, from
tracing missing persons to abandoned furniture,
global tag. When more advanced, we can see
hurricanes and tsunamis before they happen, we
will be able to have a bit for every particle of
air moving and every drop of water rushing.
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• Motivating Trends
• Technology
• Atoms to Bits
• Thoughts to Bytes
• Directing Life
• Diversification of Access Method
• I-con

We lack the capability to affect the atom when we
manipulate the bit, imagine if we could change
the structure of a city, during a tsunami, youd
be able to see how the water is rushing in and
simultaneously divert it minimizing the damage.
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• Motivating Trends
• Technology
• Atoms to Bits
• Thoughts to Bytes
• Directing Life
• Diversification of Access Method
• I-con

From telegraph, telephone, E-mail, ICQ,
Messenger, it all reveals one thing
communication taking place on a new level, it is
become more and more condensed and more
immediate.
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• Motivating Trends
• Technology
• Atoms to Bits
• Thoughts to Bytes
• Directing Life
• Diversification of Access Method
• I-con

Yet when we do this, we lose more and more
context, each person must make more and more
social-cultural assumptions on the message they
receive. We still feel like were not being
heard / youre misunderstanding me / youre still
not getting me. -Priscilla
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• Motivating Trends
• Technology
• Atoms to Bits
• Thoughts to Bytes
• Directing Life
• Diversification of Access Method
• I-con

This trend is analogous to gaming preference
settings the environment adjusts to the
preference of the user. This idea is extended to
the embedded world so the personal data of any
individual could trigger a personalized
experience of an event or environment. -Ricky
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• Motivating Trends
• Technology
• Atoms to Bits
• Thoughts to Bytes
• Directing Life
• Diversification of Access Method
• I-con

All our actions are basically transmitting
information data, our every action is
delivering data, when you are working on a
computer, your fingers are on the keys typing a
sentence, delivering that information from your
brain to the computer itself. This applies to
everything, doors, food, clothing.
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• Motivating Trends
• Technology
• Atoms to Bits
• Thoughts to Bytes
• Directing Life
• Diversification of Access Method
• I-con

We shouldnt only be able to tell our room what
temperature we want it to be, the room should
know what temperature, it should be
ubiquitous. This should be done through avatar,
our avatar precedes us, it ensure that the
environment is safe and to our preferences before
we even arrive
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• Motivating Trends
• Technology
• Atoms to Bits
• Thoughts to Bytes
• Directing Life
• Diversification of Access Method
• I-con

Laptops, cellphones, UMPCs and networked objects
have become more and more pervasive. There is an
effort to establish and maintain platform and
software compatibility for a diverse array of
high powered networked devices, so anyone with
computational devices can embrace rapid growth in
mobile data communications and services that
indispensable to our daily lives. -Ricky
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• Motivating Trends
• Technology
• Atoms to Bits
• Thoughts to Bytes
• Directing Life
• Diversification of Access Method
• I-con

The closer we move towards IoT, the more
platforms we have to move into the same space,
each one will be if the currently corporate
thinking continues, altered to become
proprietary platforms, gateways, software. Each
mode of access will be different from one
another, and we will have to memorize thousands
of systems
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• Motivating Trends
• Technology
• Atoms to Bits
• Thoughts to Bytes
• Directing Life
• Diversification of Access Method
• I-con

What is lacking is continuity, can I access my
email from the orange Im peeling? Never mind why
I would want to access email while I peel and
orange, the question is can I? And if I cant,
why not? A thousand platforms to the plurality
of mes when all I want is just one.
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• Motivating Trends
• Technology
• Atoms to Bits
• Thoughts to Bytes
• Directing Life
• Diversification of Access Method
• I-con

The icon is just one stream of transmitting an
aspect of you to another person, it can be
utilized to express distinct emotions through the
use of emoticon ), even word processing
programs such as Microsoft word recognizes this
new language.
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• Motivating Trends
• Technology
• Atoms to Bits
• Thoughts to Bytes
• Directing Life
• Diversification of Access Method
• I-con

as recent as this year has applied customizable
animated emoticons into the scene. Its
diversified the field of information, however the
language itself, if you can consider it a
language has become much more erratic and
irrelevant at times. However, after a given
period, a personalized emoticon set may become
one of the defining characteristics used to
determine who you are talking to.
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• Motivating Trends
• Behavior
• Jesus Saves... And Takes half damage
• Profile
• Re-appropriation/
• Repurposing
• Mediafilia

Roleplaying lets you create an avatar of
yourself, capable of doing anything. Recent
mmorpg has actualized its capability to be
relevant to the entire world. It has always been
relevant though, escapism has had a long history,
books then games, and this is one of the final
retrievals of being a child. It allows you
develop people that dont exist, it allows you to
develop different versions of you.
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• Motivating Trends
• Behavior
• Jesus Saves... And Takes half damage
• Profile
• Re-appropriation/
• Repurposing
• Mediafilia

Senses, you can only perceive that character in
your own mind, there are no senses linked with
the experience.
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• Motivating Trends
• Behavior
• Jesus Saves... And Takes half damage
• Profile
• Re-appropriation/
• Repurposing
• Mediafilia

Online dating distills you down to your
relevant statistics, people can spontaneously
seek you out of the millions of profiles that
also exist, you can find anyone, everyone,
efficiently, effectively.
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• Motivating Trends
• Behavior
• Jesus Saves... And Takes half damage
• Profile
• Re-appropriation/
• Repurposing
• Mediafilia

You are not your shoe size, people know what you
look like, the types of foods you like to eat,
the music you watch, but they dont KNOW you.
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• Motivating Trends
• Behavior
• Jesus Saves... And Takes half damage
• Profile
• Re-appropriation/
• Repurposing
• Mediafilia

Take apart your past and put together your
future, what better place to do this than in the
wonderland of dataspace? How far does the rabbit
hole go? Only one way to find out. Disassemble
philosophies, ethics, morals and cultures and
fuse it together to make your own.
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• Motivating Trends
• Behavior
• Jesus Saves... And Takes half damage
• Profile
• Re-appropriation/
• Repurposing
• Mediafilia

You are what you eat, and your avatar loves
Family Guy. You are not only who you are but you
are extended and amplified by what you watch,
listen to, what you enjoy. Its a way of knowing
yourself better if only by finding general
interests.
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• Motivating Trends
• Culture
• New Senses
• Growing Up Remixed
• Media Karma
• Netiquette

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• Motivating Trends
• Culture
• New Senses
• Growing Up Remixed
• Media Karma
• Netiquette

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• Motivating Trends
• Culture
• New Senses
• Growing Up Remixed
• Media Karma
• Netiquette

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• Motivating Trends
• Culture
• New Senses
• Growing Up Remixed
• Media Karma
• Netiquette

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Core Competencies

• Avatars In Dataspace

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Avatar, if it was a feeling, would feel like I
am not alone

• The warm comfortable glow of people I know and
  care for being there, everyone being with me and
  me being there with everyone.

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It would be knowing everyone and everyone knowing
me

• Avatar is transformation, from physical to
  virtual, to be extended beyond the boundaries of
  space and time and self. To not only sense a
  person as truly as if they were standing in front
  of you, but to sense that person as if you were
  them as well.

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It is about learning and unlearning.To become
less of what we are and more of who we want to be.
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Avatar, after all this is about one thing and one
thing only, it is about us.
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It empowers people, no matter how insignificant,
with the ability to tell their story, their hopes
and their dreams. It is the ability to hear, to
be heard and understood.
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It is Eudamonia
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How are you feeling?
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Do you want something?
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Will you be okay?
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Everything is going to be fine.
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Talk to me, please?
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That is the feeling that Avatar should make you
feel.
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fin.