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inventor of VRML (virtual reality modeling language)

For Pesce, the astounding growth of the Net over the last decade can mean only one thing: Teilhard's   noosphere is striving to know itself. In the capstone address before a VRML World Movers conference, Pesce explained that the noosphere, having saturated the electrical communication technologies of the pre-digital age, has begun to turn inward, ingesting "all human knowledge and all human experience." Using complexity-theory lingo, Pesce explained that sometime in the early 1990s, the networked noosphere began an irreversible process of self-organization. "The first of its emergent properties was the World Wide Web, for it first concrescence, Pesce pointed to the astronomical growth rate of the Web: "How else to explain a process that magically began everywhere, all at once. across the length and breadth of the Internet?" He called this phenomenon "the Web that ate the Net," and predicted that a similar transformation lies in the near future, when the Web will unfold into a three-dimensional cyberspace, courtesy of VRML or some other 3D Net protocol. "VRML is the porthole cut into the noosphere, the mirror which lets the seer see our self."'
- Erik Davis - _Techgnosis_

"I'm not sure that I believe that the Internet physically exists. I don't know about it. It's invisible to me all of the time anyway.  I'm not sure that in fact it's not simply a way that we're all magically believing that we're communicating with each other."

 - Mark Pesce, creator of VRML, concluding a talk given at Esalen with Terence McKenna, 1998.

12/20/01 - witnessed Mark Pesce present a short film on the Burning Man experience at Who's Cafe located in Los Angeles.  the talk was part of a presentation for new media arts.  other topics included electricsheep.org, Joyce Campbell re: mold photography, analog vinyl grooves.

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