Mark Pesce, father of Virtual Reality Markup Language

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 …

10 Responses to “Mark Pesce, father of Virtual Reality Markup Language”

1. FeelOfFriction says:

   June 4, 2010 at 2:50 pm

   @georgebushisawesome

   He’s an acid head, he can be trusted.
2. lollolllolllll says:

   June 4, 2010 at 3:41 pm

   @georgebushisawesome

   …obviously not reading from a tele-prompt with green screen. What are you talking about dude?
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   June 4, 2010 at 4:19 pm

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4. georgebushisawesome says:

   June 4, 2010 at 5:02 pm

   I like what Mark says, but…

   I get a little put off these days if it appears to be contrived. He seems to be reading from one of those dual-glass podium teleprompters and using a green-screen keyed background video.

   Not faulting him for excellent production values! Just would appreciate full disclosure in this age of electronic manipulation. He is competing with propaganda, we somehow are going to need clues and cues to distinguish it from the truth tellers
5. beakeclipse says:

   June 4, 2010 at 5:35 pm

   Yeah, Google his personal page, “Outside the Light-Cone”… whoa indeed.
6. onelilfizzle says:

   June 4, 2010 at 6:13 pm

   raw
7. Synthonance says:

   June 4, 2010 at 6:52 pm

   Fascinating interview Jason!
8. Air420 says:

   June 4, 2010 at 7:46 pm

   Is Mark still working on a Nanotech book???
9. aeQea says:

   June 4, 2010 at 8:05 pm

   “Pesce’s current projects include TRUE HALLUCINATIONS, an opera based on the life and death of ethnobotanist and philosopher Terence McKenna…” – woah
10. myownmyth says:

    June 4, 2010 at 8:12 pm

    Mark!