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In the general category of breeching the berm between 1st Life & 2nd Life \u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00c2\u00a0you know, finding ways in which activities in the normal geophysical world can be linked to those in the digitally networked world, I’ve pulled together some thinking into a project that I’m calling Flavonoid<\/em>. The general idea is to create ways in which linkages between 1st Life and 2nd Life can be articulated more pervasively \u00e2\u20ac\u201d not just while you’re playing your computer game or doing your email.<\/p>\n

Flavonoid started with an idea \u00e2\u20ac\u201d suppose I had to “power up” so as to get “points” or “coin” to work on my computer or play a game? Suppose that “power up” had to be physical activity? Or suppose there was a way to encourage sustained activity through a game mode, so that motion was accumulated and turned into “points” or some sort of reward?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the general category of breeching the berm between 1st Life & 2nd Life \u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00c2\u00a0you know, finding ways in which activities in the normal geophysical world can be linked to those in the digitally networked world, I’ve pulled together some thinking into a project that I’m calling Flavonoid<\/em>. The general idea is to create ways in which linkages between 1st Life and 2nd Life can be articulated more pervasively \u00e2\u20ac\u201d not just while you’re playing your computer game or doing your email.<\/p>\n

Flavonoid started with an idea \u00e2\u20ac\u201d suppose I had to “power up” so as to get “points” or “coin” to work on my computer or play a game? Suppose that “power up” had to be physical activity? Or suppose there was a way to encourage sustained activity through a game mode, so that motion was accumulated and turned into “points” or some sort of reward?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,68,113],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nFlavonoid - Near Future Laboratory<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2006\/08\/03\/old293\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Flavonoid - Near Future Laboratory\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In the general category of breeching the berm between 1st Life & 2nd Life \u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00c2\u00a0you know, finding ways in which activities in the normal geophysical world can be linked to those in the digitally networked world, I've pulled together some thinking into a project that I'm calling Flavonoid. 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