Mount Darwin (California): MIT's Manduhai Buyandelger - "Elections, Virtual Reality, and Climate Change: What Can Anthropology of Mongolia Offer?" . . .'In your virtual reality thinking and what you spoke about, would you envision a virtual Mongolia as nation state, with individual virtual land plots with ownership possibilities even in-world (think Google Street View with time slider for iterative realism, with Second Life with avatar bots, group build-ability, and land ownership, but realistic not cartoon-esque)?'

Dear Professor Buyandelger (and Kate, since you were mentioned, and are on the faculty of IU),

Thank you for your excellent talk and Q&A as well. 

In addition to my question below, how might you envision alternative realistic virtual earth(s) emerging in something like Google Street View with Time Slider (and for tele-robotic surgery at the cellular and molecular levels too for all 200 countries, re one definition of 'medical realism' in 'VIRTUAL REALITY' for example)? 

"Thank you for your excellent presentation on Mongolia “Elections, Virtual Reality, and Climate Change: What Can Anthropology of Mongolia Offer?”. In your virtual reality thinking and what you spoke about, would you envision a virtual Mongolia as nation state, with individual virtual land plots with ownership possibilities even in-world (think Google Street View with time slider for iterative realism, with Second Life with avatar bots, group build-ability, and land ownership, but realistic not cartoon-esque)? Thanks, Scott MacLeod (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org)"



And from Linked In - 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/manduhai-buyandelger-49b00b88/

Thanks for your great talk, Professor Buyandelger 

https://twitter.com/MITanthropology/status/1365752815008718848! I'll email you further about alternative virtual reality questions, incl. virtual @HarbinBook. Best, Scott (worlduniversityandschool.org & Mongolia WUaS https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod)

In developing CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric wiki World Univ & Sch, am interested in facilitating the creation of Mongolia World Univ & Sch in Mongolian languages (which will emerge from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States and https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages and check out the main wiki subjects' page - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - for its academic wiki subjects, with their MIT OCW to get a sense how WUaS works, as we partnering with edX presently as well), and for free-to-students' online Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD and IB high School degrees as well (and in the other Eurasian countries you study, Kate, as well). How might we best communicate further about this as well? 

I will look out for a recording of your excellent talk if it becomes available. Thank you again so much!

Sincerely, Scott

PS

My actual-virtual field site is Harbin Hot Springs in northern California, and you can access the Harbin gatehouse here, and 'walk' 4 miles down the road to Middletown, CA, from one of the bottom most images I think ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (see the time slider function, brainstorming-wise, here or other Google Street Views) ~ accessible from - https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~ and regarding too a realistic virtual Mongolia planning too, some beginnings of which are here - https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mongolia/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x3627050669aa6d4b:0xe0dd213937e6e096?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwibw6vWgovvAhULLK0KHQ-6AG8Q8gEwLHoECDwQAQ . 

#RealisticVirtualHarbin

#ActualVirtual

PPS

Greetings to Heather Paxson if you're in communication with her. 

Thank you again!

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