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X-WR-CALNAME:Metanomics - Business and Policy in the Metaverse | May 18\, 2008 - June 17\, 2008
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SUMMARY:May 19   \\"Best of Metanomics\\"  FORTERRA FUTURES
DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>Join us at 11 AM Monday to discuss a Metanomics interview with Robert Gehorsam\,  the President of Forterra Systems\, Inc. Forterra's experience with the University of Maryland’s Transportation Laboratory (which is using a virtual world to train I-95 emergency response teams) led to a broader discussion of the role of simulation...which led to an interesting exploration of  work being done at the University of Central Florida\, and host Rob Bloomfield's favorite term of the day\: \\"the military-entertainment complex\\".</p>
 <p><a href=\\"http\://slurl.com/secondlife/Muse%20Isle/164/178/30\\">Click here to teleport to our main location at Muse Isle!</a></p>
 <p><a href=\\"http\://metanomics.net/12-may-2008/metanomics-event-partners\\">Click here to find an event partner location!</a><br />
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SUMMARY:May 20 \\"Best of Metanomics\\"  Ted Castronova on Synthetic Economies
DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>Join us Tuesday\, May 20th at 3 PM SLT for the Metanomics Rewind of our interview with Ted Castronova.  <a href=\\"http\://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Castronova\\">Edward Castronova\,</a> Associate Professor of Telecommunications at <a href=\\"http\://newsinfo.iu.edu/sb/page/normal/1098.html\\">Indiana University</a>\, was the first economist to examine virtual worlds.  His work on synthetic economies\, and Everquest in particular\, have helped to define the \\"<a href=\\"http\://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=294828\\">cyberian frontier</a>\\".</p>
 
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