Virtual Worlds Conference ‘07
Day 1. 3PM. Here I sit in the Press Room after one interview on tape, four interviews scheduled for either tomorrow or later online, and getting blown off by the folks at Icarus Studios. The latter was disappointing, but I understood since they’re getting a lot of attention from people far more important than I am right now.
The bigger issue is the steam that I’m losing regarding interviewing more industry insiders focused solely on technological developments. I’m realizing it’s not the story.
Yeah, no shit, you say. Documentaries, except for those crazy things on Discovery Channel, are not about things, or technology, they’re about people.
This is about culture. It’s about the human influence. It’s about how people are going to deal with this new thing…whatever it might be…and about how they are going to act when they are inside these new worlds. 99.9% of the people here are all rah-rah about the world(s). One guy was…well, let’s just say he was a little vocal about his misgivings regarding how novel everything we are seeing is, and regarding where true adopters of these new worlds would end up.
I don’t know. What I do know is that it’s time to start doing some real world research regarding how people have dealt with change in the past.
Culture.
Hmmm.