Futurist, author and co-inventor of VRML, Mark Pesce, talks to us about connectedness, maternal instinct, love, life, death, intimacy, technology obsession and being present to our fellow humans in this moving, powerful talk.
In this twenty minute rant, Mark Pesce sticks a fork into the Eschaton--it's "done." If the sky is falling and the world is ending in less than six years, how come no one is getting their affairs in order? Pesce recounts the Great Disappointment of the apocalyptic Millerite cult, touches on the ideas of Terence McKenna, lambasts Ray Kurzweil, discusses technological singularity, and discounts the idea of fabricated "artificial" intelligence (in favor of non-biological minds that are "grown").
Known internationally as the man who fused virtual reality with the World Wide Web, Mark Pesce is now based in Australia and espousing his philosophy of Internet "swarm" audiences and peer-to-peer "hyper-distribution" via the Australian Film, TV and Radio School. The author of five books, Pesce is a ferociously illuminating technologist, futurist and philosopher. Forbes ASAP, TIME Digital, WIRED and The New York Times have profiled him and his views on the interactive age. He has written himself for WIRED, Feed, Salon, PC Magazine, and serves on the editorial board of TRIP magazine. From 1998 through 2000, Pesce chaired the Interactive Media Program at the University of Southern California's world-renowned School of Cinema-Television. His mandate - to bring cinema and broadcast television into the interactive era - led him to create a program that encouraged creative vision and is now producing a generation of entertainment professionals shaping the media of the 21st century. Pesce's current projects include TRUE HALLUCINATIONS, an opera based on the life and death of ethnobotanist and philosopher Terence McKenna, and The Next Big Thing, a book chronicling the science, business and politics of nanotechnology. In this interview, Mark Pesce talks about the how the profound changes in technology consumption and distribution are likely to reshape the media landscape in the next couple of years. He describes in depth the legal, financial and philosophical implications of peer <b>...</b>
Mark Pesce "drinking the Kool Aid" on Australia's need for the NBN For more information on Mark Pesce, please visit cultofmarkpesce.com
Fascinating conversation with technology expert, consultant, teacher and author Mark Pesce. Pesce recently spoke at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York, and in this discussion he provides his thoughts and opinions on where we are with web and mobile technology, and most importantly, on its critical social and political impact on us all today.
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Mark Pesce talks to the Department of Health Victoria about the changing trend of internet use, possible futures and the risks and benefits of what lies ahead.
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0:00-1:00 On This Week in Social Media we're talking about People Power with Mark Pesce and Brad McCarty. 1:00-1:30 Mark, how are things in Sydney? 1:30-4:15 Mark, you developed a whole world of virtual reality through VRML. How do you think we've ended up since the vision you had in the 1990s? 4:15-5:15 At one point, the tweets were moving faster than the storm (Hurricane Irene) itself. 5:15-7:00 Welcome to Brad, North American editor for The Next Web. How are things in Nashville? 7:00-8:30 Brad- I was looking at a story out of Indonesia this week about a woman who ran a social media campaign for an election in Indonesia and is now getting offers as a social media coach. 8:30-11:00 This week, we're taking a look at MTV and their use of social media for the Movie Awards. Any reaction, Mark or Brad? 11:00-11:30 At that event, Beyonce broke the news of her pregnancy and generated more tweets per minute than any other world event, ever. 11:30-13:30 Even a year after the BP Deepwater Horizon incident, BP continues to lose in its social media efforts to rehabilitate the brand. 13:30-16:00 Doesn't it seem strange that a head of PR wouldn't use these tools themselves and be familiar with them? 16:00-17:00 Brad: Pitch me on Twitter. 140 characters or less is what I have time to read. 17:00-19:00 Marketers say they want to have a dialogue with their customers, but their dollars are still spent on traditional, one-sized media. 19:00-20:15 Mark: Guidelines are different than brands <b>...</b>
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Terence McKenna and Mark Pesce at Esalen in August 1998. I think we have to have character models built of ourselves, and turn the whole thing over to our writers; and we'll just go off to Tahiti, and the writers can — it's the "Uncle Duke" solution. If you can turn yourself into a cartoon character, you can retire, and a whole team of people will keep you au courant. ... You know, I think the only way to keep your career going is to retire the "bod", and create an online character-- a Saturday morning cartoon show apparently is where the action is. It's strange — you know, the Net is denounced as austere, the product of the engineering mentality, so forth and so on. It's the most feminine influence that Western civilization has ever allowed itself to fall under the spell of. The troubadors of the fourteenth century were as nothing compared to the boundary-dissolving, feminizing, permitting, nurturing nature of the Net. Maybe that's why there is an overwhelming male preference for it, in its early form, because that's where that was needed. But it is Sophia, it is wisdom, it is the penetrating archetypal female logos of the world-soul, leading us away from what was very sharp-edged and uncomfortable and repressive to our creativity and our sexuality and our relationships to each other and to the Earth. Virtual reality is a fairly new concept to us; but once you grok it, it seems clear that any civilization that was capable of starflight and longevity extension, and so <b>...</b>
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Mark Pesce's keynote presentation from Personal Democracy Forum 2009.
alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com Terence McKenna and Marc Pesce explore the world of the Psychedellic Shaman and shamanism in modern culture. Alien Dimensions explores the concept of the Alien in our culture.
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TechnoPagans at the End of History: Virtual Reality, Psychedelics, and the Impeding End of Everything Terence McKenna and Mark Pesce at Esalen in August 1998. I think we have to have character models built of ourselves, and turn the whole thing over to our writers; and we'll just go off to Tahiti, and the writers can — it's the "Uncle Duke" solution. If you can turn yourself into a cartoon character, you can retire, and a whole team of people will keep you au courant. ... You know, I think the only way to keep your career going is to retire the "bod", and create an online character-- a Saturday morning cartoon show apparently is where the action is. It's strange — you know, the Net is denounced as austere, the product of the engineering mentality, so forth and so on. It's the most feminine influence that Western civilization has ever allowed itself to fall under the spell of. The troubadors of the fourteenth century were as nothing compared to the boundary-dissolving, feminizing, permitting, nurturing nature of the Net. Maybe that's why there is an overwhelming male preference for it, in its early form, because that's where that was needed. But it is Sophia, it is wisdom, it is the penetrating archetypal female logos of the world-soul, leading us away from what was very sharp-edged and uncomfortable and repressive to our creativity and our sexuality and our relationships to each other and to the Earth. Virtual reality is a fairly new concept to us; but once you grok it <b>...</b>
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PdF 2009 in New York we asked "If you could ask the PdF audience one question, what would you ask?" We would like to hear your answers to the insightful questions that were asked at our 2009 conference. Please post your comments at personaldemocracy.com
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In this twenty minute rant, Mark Pesce sticks a fork into the Eschaton--it's "done." If the sky is falling and the world is ending in less than six years, how come no one is getting their affairs in order? Pesce recounts the Great Disappointment of the apocalyptic Millerite cult, touches on the ideas of Terence McKenna, lambasts Ray Kurzweil, discusses technological singularity, and discounts the idea of fabricated "artificial" intelligence (in favor of non-biological minds that are "grown").
alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com TechnoPagans at the End of History: Virtual Reality, Psychedelics, and the Impeding End of Everything Terence McKenna and Mark Pesce at Esalen in August 1998. I think we have to have character models built of ourselves, and turn the whole thing over to our writers; and we'll just go off to Tahiti, and the writers can — it's the "Uncle Duke" solution. If you can turn yourself into a cartoon character, you can retire, and a whole team of people will keep you au courant. ... You know, I think the only way to keep your career going is to retire the "bod", and create an online character-- a Saturday morning cartoon show apparently is where the action is. It's strange — you know, the Net is denounced as austere, the product of the engineering mentality, so forth and so on. It's the most feminine influence that Western civilization has ever allowed itself to fall under the spell of. The troubadors of the fourteenth century were as nothing compared to the boundary-dissolving, feminizing, permitting, nurturing nature of the Net. Maybe that's why there is an overwhelming male preference for it, in its early form, because that's where that was needed. But it is Sophia, it is wisdom, it is the penetrating archetypal female logos of the world-soul, leading us away from what was very sharp-edged and uncomfortable and repressive to our creativity and our sexuality and our relationships to each other and to the Earth. Virtual reality is a fairly new <b>...</b>
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Recorded at The Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California in August 1998.
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Mark intorduces the concept of Hyperdistribution.
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Recorded at The Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California in August 1998.
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Mark fields some key questions from the audience.
