Please join us Saturday, March 22 from 1-3pm SLT at the Central Nexus in Extropia Core for Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon!  Our Spotlight Guest will be futurist, community builder and blogger DavidOrban Agnon (David Orban) for an exploration of The New Renaissance.

DavidOrban is:

• Founder of OpenSpime, Inc.: their technology enables individuals and corporations to better understand their environment, through the use of a series of GPS-enabled sensors. They provide a set of open APIs and communication protocols to manage the data collected;

• Founder of Vulcano, an online community in Second Life, whose aim is to explore the rich opportunities that the metaverse offers in new types of social organization, education, entertainment, and business;

• Founder of the Singularity Institute Europe;

• and a founding member of Lunarez - The Metaverse Space Agency, a team competing for the Google Lunar X Prize.

• "What is the question that I should be asking?" is my motto. Meta-analyses, and meta-rules are the tools of the trade when going breadth first is an advantage. The new renaissance is also about cutting across the limits of deep specialization. Tolerating high levels of pressure, and frequent mistakes, accelerating cycles of invention and innovation build the new worlds ahead of us.

Yesterday's Salon, "Religion, Spirituality And The Avatar," with Soren Ferlinghetti (Dr. Robert M. Geraci) was one of the best, and best-attended Salons to date, with a peak concurrency of 45 and a total attendance of over 60. Soren shared his research and insights into religion in SL, while our discussion was wide-ranging, clever, intense and respectful of a diversity of views. Special thanks to SL-Transhumanists and The Al-Andalus Project for inviting their members to join us!

The chatlog is available on the Extropia website.