David Gobel

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Mr. Gobel is the Founder and was first Chief Executive Officer of Worlds Inc, now Activeworlds Inc. Gobel conceived many breakthrough technologies and went on to found or co-found private and venture capital backed companies and non-profits built for the purpose of delivering those same technologies. Examples are Knowledge Adventure, one of the earliest and most successful educational multimedia software developers to date; co-inventor of shared virtual worlds over the Internet; Partnered with Stephen Spielberg to create Starbright Foundation's Starbright World, which was designed to allow hospital bound children to "go out and play" in a rich virtual world where they can communicate with friends and family. He is currently Founder and CEO of Methuselah Foundation a charity focused on extending healthy human life (www.Mfoundation.org)

Trivia

Some interesting AlphaWorld object reference here.

zdgdesk01.rwx -- dg is clearly a reference to Mr. Gobel's intitals. That object is part of object sets used for construction of World Inc. Headquarter near AlphaWorld Ground Zero area during the year of 1995-1996. This desk object was meant for his "virtual office" in the basement of that building.