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You have to wonder how the job description reads... - robkelk - 03-10-2008
Seen on the Inquirer: http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/ ... ntious-moi]Preposterous job title of the weak (sp)
Exactly what does a "Metaverse Evangelist" do, anyway? It's a job at IBM, so it (probably) doesn't have anything to do with fanfiction...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
- Bob Schroeck - 03-10-2008
Probably some kind of Net advocate, for lack of a better name. "Metaverse" was a cyberspace-like virtual place in Stephenson's Snow Crash, after all.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- jpub - 03-10-2008
A metaverse evangelist is basically someone who tries to push the use of virutal worlds - for simulation and development, for the most part, IIRC.
Silly sounding, but a serious job.