Wagner James Au sez, "He's upheld the First Amendment protections of video games and contemplated the future of law in online worlds, and early December, in an apt progression, monumentally influential Judge Richard A. Posner will take on avatar form, to discuss the US Constitution in the era of apocalyptic terrorism. (Event sponsored by Creative Commons.)"
"I am very excited to have been asked to give a talk, via an avatar, in Second Life," Judge Posner tells me, via e-mail. "Virtual communities are an important social phenomenon with transformative potential, and I know that Second Life is in the forefront of this latest stage of the digital revolution." And I'm very excited to welcome such an august figure in-world, joining Lawrence Lessig, Thomas Barnett, and other great public intellectuals who're among the first to transmit their crucial ideas into the metaverse.
(Thanks, James!)
