I had a great time at Living Game World IV at Georgia Tech this week. While I am not a hard core Virtual Worlds games designer, the connections between VWs, Social Media, User Created Content and real life are now so great as to be an essential part of any media tech executives thinking. That is the official travel request I put in, anyway. My friends will know that I would not have missed a chance to see the heroes of gaming all assembled in one room and get to talk to them. I got to meet my heroes and talk to them. I saw virtual wonders and met some of the new Wizards of the shared mind. I learned of the history of games worlds and the urgent need for the developers of new worlds to combining learning from past mistakes and exploring new spaces. We can all learn from the past while we move forward with the new media tools we are forging. I look forward to putting the things I have learned about group creativity and ‘playfulness’ into practice. And to think, my mother was right when she said “you should join that computer club at school, you seem to enjoy it, and you never know, it might be useful one day”.   more »