Institute for the Future (IFTF)'s video: IFTF Online Collaboration The Great Communications Hackathon with Toshi Hoo

Aired on May 14, 2020 Institute for the Future's Emerging Media Lab Director Toshi Anders Hoo joins Mark Frauenfelder to explore the future of human communication, collaboration and connection through emerging media technologies. The covid-19 pandemic has instigated an unprecedented global experiment as people around the world try to figure out how to translate their social, personal, and professional lives into the constraints of online tools and networks. The EML is looking both at the urgent futures during this forced global hackathon, as well as the long-term futures of social virtual reality platforms where people will be embodied as 3D avatars and inhabit shared virtual worlds. For more information about the series and links to references from this episode, please visit http://www.iftf.org/onlinecollaborationseries.