Krag's Genealogy on SL
In September, Irving Wladawsky-Berger of IBM blogged about Transforming Business through Virtual Worlds Capabilities - it's Déjà Vu All Over Again, saying that
Last night, Krag Mariner (SL name), president of Heritage Books in Maryland, spoke in Second Life on the use of Civil War military records. Not about searching the web for snippets of family history, but about how to read 100+ year old paper documents in the National Archives, and how these records came to be created in the last half of the 19th century. In many ways, the venue was better than real life for this presentation.
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For awhile now, I have felt that one of the most exciting areas of innovation is to recast our interactions with computer applications in terms of the humans that use them rather than the machines and software that run them. In particular, since our brains are basically wired for sight and sound, it is not surprising that the more visual an application, the more intuitive and human oriented it is likely to feel.I was skeptical then. No longer.
So, here we are in 2006, once more facing a set of fledgling technologies and capabilities -- massively multiplayer online games and virtual worlds – that are already being used by many millions out there
Last night, Krag Mariner (SL name), president of Heritage Books in Maryland, spoke in Second Life on the use of Civil War military records. Not about searching the web for snippets of family history, but about how to read 100+ year old paper documents in the National Archives, and how these records came to be created in the last half of the 19th century. In many ways, the venue was better than real life for this presentation.
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