The Messenger - Issue #8: The Sensome
This week we are switching it up in two ways: we are shifting our focus from topics to tools, and we have a guest illustrator - Alok Srivastava - whose sketches grace this issue.
The Sensome
The Sensome doesn't exist yet, but with all the hype and publicity around the Metaverse, we might as well speculate on a near future when it does exist.
So what's the Sensome?
It is an immersive environment that enables participants to collaboratively consider a wicked problem and then discuss, debate and develop a response to it. Sensome participants can ‘see’ what they are discussing, move within the environment and ‘point’ at things. But enough with the text - let's see what Alok has to show us.
Afterword
A couple of links about the internet of everything, aka the Metaverse
So what is “the metaverse,” exactly? | Ars Technica — arstechnica.com Will we all live in the metaverse soon? Or is the idea just Second Life redux?
Dreams are a precious resource. Don’t let advertisers hack them | Aeon Essays — aeon.co Dream-hacking techniques can help us create, heal and have fun. They could also become tools of commercial manipulation
🖖🏾 until next time