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Videos – a foresight collection: 24 people share their thoughts on the networked future

This page contains links to video interviews with a representative sample of the participants at the Metaverse Roadmap Summit at Stanford Research Institute in May 2006. Each person was asked a series of five questions regarding the future.

To view a video, simply click on the person’s name below.

Bridget Agabra
Metaverse
Roadmap Project Manager
Randy Farmer
community
analyst, Yahoo! Inc.
Jerry Paffendorf,

Acceleration Studies Foundation

Betsy Book
Makena
Technologies (There)
Guy Garnett
Cultural
Computing, UIUC
Marty Poulin
programmer,
SCE-RT Sony CEA
Corey Bridges
co-founder,
the Multiverse Network
Will Harvey
founder,
CEO of IMVU
Robert Scoble
Microsoft blogger and
technical evangelist
Iveta Brigis
Acceleration
Studies Foundation
Daniel James
founder,
CEO of Three Rings
John Smart
director, Acceleration
Studies Foundation
Jamais Cascio
founder,
Open the Future
Raph Koster
MMORPG designer, formerly of Sony
David Smith
principal architect,
Croquet Project
Helen Cheng
software developer, Seriosity
Mike Liebhold
researcher, Institute for the Future
Sibley Verbeck
founder,
Electric Sheep Company
Esther Dyson
founding chairman of ICANN
Julian Lombardi
architect,
Croquet Project
Malcolm Williamson
Center for Advanced
Spatial Technologies
Doug Engelbart

Computing, internet
technology pioneer

Bob Moore
sociologist,
PARC PlayOn Project
Ethan Zuckerman
Harvard’s Berkman
Center for Internet & Society

>> Return to Metaverse interviews lead page for links to audio files and transcripts

Metaverse Roadmap Group Photo