Philip Rosedale: "Starman"
Stayin' Alive in Tech
English - April 18, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 45.7 MB - ★★★★ - 18 ratingsTechnology News Tech News siliconvalley technology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Philip Rosedale is a virtual world entrepreneur with insatiable curiosity. Co-founder of High Fidelity and Second Life, he joins the podcast to discuss the biggest themes at the intersection of humanity and technology. Hear Philip describe how they built believable virtual experiences and takes a look forward to the future of expansive virtual worlds and 3D interactions.
LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson, the 1992 book that’s called a “gigathriller of the information age,” which had a significant impact on Philip’s visions for virtual worlds The Documentary film Our Digital Selves: My Avatar is me [full feature film] Melinda’s tweetstorm about the documentary Moore’s law: the prediction that the number of transistors on integrated circuit chips would double about every two years.
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ABOUT THIS PODCAST
Stayin' Alive in Tech is an oral history of Silicon Valley and technology. Melinda Byerley, the host, is a 20-year veteran of Silicon Valley and the founder of Timeshare CMO, a digital marketing intelligence firm, based in San Francisco.
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