Librarian as Avatar

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Technologycreates

feasibility spacesfor social practice.

Yochai Benkler, 2006The Wealth of Networks:

How Social Production Transform Markets and Freedoms

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That said …

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Technologycreates

feasibility spacesfor social practice.

Construct

virtual reality avatars Habitat

sandbox 3D-virtual worldSnow Crash MetaverseCyberpunk Hiro

Protagonist Librariancommunities of practice

mmorpg [?NOT] MUVE [YES!]

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VDE | just-in-time info |

pick-up instruction

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Suppose that now, for the first time in history,

we are able to arrange our concepts without

the silent limitationsof the physical.

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Suppose …

How might our

ideas,organizations,

and knowledge itself change?

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David Weinberger, 2007Everything is Miscellaneous:

The Power of the New Digital Disorder

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