Summary: Welcome to Episode Nineteen of The Virtual Worlds BusinessCast, brought to you by Voices in Business. Today we bring you the second and final part of our conversation withnbsp;Christian Renaud, Chief Architect for Networked Virtual Environments at the Cisco Technology Centre. Christian chats with Vicki Zesses of Voices in Business on a range of topics, including how he has been using virtual world technology to attempt tonbsp;reduce his carbon footprint, bynbsp;holding virtual meetings instead of flying around the globe. Show notes for this episode: 00:12 - Mike Orsquo;Hara introduction 00:38 - Continuation of interview from previous episode 00:50 - The goal Christian has set for himself to not travel 01:58 - The Nature Conservancy challenge 04:05 - The inefficiency of trade shows 05:28 - The shrinking role of geography in collaboration 06:55 - Different levels of human #38; socialnbsp;interaction 09:50 - Where face-to-face communication is necessary 10:32 - Research work being done with Tom Malone of MIT/CCI 12:51 - What does the future hold? 13:21 - Education, training and simulation 14:10 - Business collaboration 15:51 - Integration with existing technologies 16:40 - Custom 3D simulations 17:48 - The problem with linear extrapolation 19:08 - The gamer generation 21:34 - The move to a distributed working model 24:14 - End of interview and wrap-up We welcome all feedback, so please leave a comment here on the website, call us to leave an audio comment on +44 20 7193 1295, or send an e-mail to comments@voicesinbusiness.com Links: The Nature Conservancy challenge MIT Centre for Collective Intelligence Listen Now: To listen to the podcast right now, click on the player icon below.
