#Virtual World Innovations

Exploration of innovations in virtual worlds, including Play-to-Earn, GameFi, metaverses, simulation theory, VR, and AR, and their impact on financial and social processes.

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ForkLog 21 29.03.2024

Buckle up, humans: why driverless cars matter

The idea of a fully autonomous vehicle, driven without human involvement, lingered for decades in science fiction and engineers’ daydreams. Yet rapid advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics and computing in recent years have brought that future closer than ever. Today, leading carmakers and young start-ups are actively developing and testing driverless cars, while […]

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ForkLog 14 19.02.2024

Cyber om, cyber mani, cyber padme, cyber hum: where cyber-Buddhists look for an exit from samsara

Can you build a monastery in Minecraft and retreat into it with a VR headset? Who lives in neural networks: wrathful entities or the Buddha? And when, at long last, will the quantum Maitreya appear? Pondering these questions, ForkLog sought answers from Mikhail Matrekhin — a researcher of Eastern spiritual practices and author of the […]

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ForkLog 41 06.02.2024

Quantum computers: who will bask in the glow of the analogue–digital chandelier?

Quantum computers have long inspired both hope and anxiety. Optimists expect them to propel computing into a new era, tackling problems beyond the reach of today’s most powerful machines. Pessimists counter that, for ordinary users, all those qubits dangling in “chandeliers” will bring little besides new challenges for cryptography and data protection. For ForkLog readers, […]

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ForkLog 22 29.12.2023

The Marvelous New Phygital World. Is It Still a Marketing Ploy or the Ideology of the Future?

Philosopher Alexandra Tanushina on how the idea of a hybrid material-virtual world arose and when to expect its realisation.

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ForkLog 26 19.12.2023

From the Magnetic Drum to the Babylonian Fish: How Machine Translation Began

Science journalist Yana Khlyustova on how a pacifist polyglot saved the idea of machine translation from an untimely death.

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ForkLog 14 08.12.2023

Blockchain, DAOs and Game Theory: The Basis of Dan Larimer’s ‘True Democracy’

A review of More Equal Animals: The Subtle Art of True Democracy, by the creator of the EOS blockchain and the Bitshares exchange.

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ForkLog 22 28.11.2023

Interplanetary Consensus and Weather Mining: What IPFS Looks Like Today

IPFS's ten-year anniversary and which 'Next HTTP' projects to watch.

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ForkLog 27 25.11.2023

On acceleration: what e/acc is and how it could have influenced Sam Altman’s dismissal

How 'effective accelerationism' split the AI research community.

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ForkLog 9 10.11.2023

How Artificial Intelligence Is Trying to Hack You

A chapter from Bruce Schneier's book Hacking Everything: How the Powerful Exploit System Vulnerabilities for Their Interests, on the most unethical aspects of AI.

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ForkLog 25 02.11.2023

Schrödinger’s Author: Why Neuro Art Is Not Accepted in the Art Market

Philosopher Alexandra Tanyushina on the authenticity of crypto art and the figure of the author in the age of digital technologies.

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ForkLog 33 09.10.2023

ChatGPT — the Antonym of Wikipedia. Philosopher Gaspard Koenig on AI threats, imagined and real

A major interview with the author of The End of the Individual: Adventures of a Philosopher in the World of Artificial Intelligence.

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ForkLog 14 12.09.2023

The Metaphysical Juice of Virtual Apples: What Contemporary Philosophers Think About VR

Alexandra Tanyushina explains why the status of digital spaces is so hotly debated among media theorists and why we should study virtual reality at all.

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