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| Mark Pesce, the father of Virtual Reality Markup Language and one of the world's most sought after media futurologists, on Net swarms, hyper distribution and the future of TV | | Date Created: 26 Nov, 2005, 11:03 AM |
 Known internationally as the man who fused virtual reality with the World Wide Web, Mark Pesce is now based in Australia and espousing his philosophy of Internet "swarm" audiences and peer-to-peer "hyper-distribution" via the Australian Film, TV and Radio School.
The author of five books, Pesce is a ferociously illuminating technologist, futurist and philosopher. Forbes ASAP, TIME Digital, WIRED and The New York Times have profiled him and his views on the interactive age. He has written himself for WIRED, Feed, Salon, PC Magazine, and serves on the editorial board of TRIP magazine.
From 1998 through 2000, Pesce chaired the Interactive Media Program at the University of Southern California's world-renowned School of Cinema-Television. His mandate - to bring cinema and broadcast television into the interactive era - led him to create a program that encouraged creative vision and is now producing a generation of entertainment professionals shaping the media of the 21st century.
Pesce's current projects include TRUE HALLUCINATIONS, an opera based on the life and death of ethnobotanist and philosopher Terence McKenna, and The Next Big Thing, a book chronicling the science, business and politics of nanotechnology.
In this interview, Mark Pesce talks about the how the profound changes in technology consumption and distribution are likely to reshape the media landscape in the next couple of years. He describes in depth the legal, financial and philosophical implications of peer-to-peer networking, IPv6, nano-technology, mobile wireless video devices, identity management and theft, copyright and piracy.
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