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Subscribe: The Digital SidewalkVoice of the Internet's First Conversational AI Platform (Tellme Networks - $3.5B+ ecosystem value)
Ph.D. Entertainment-Education ~ Creator of "The Digital Sidewalk"
A living framework where walking, talking, and thinking aloud ignite new ways of learning and connection. Rooted in hybrid learning and inspired by Buildspace, the Digital Sidewalk reimagines how knowledge moves in our decentralized age.
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Hire "Dr. Darby" for Speaking & ConsultingExploring the edge of entertainment-education, cybernetics, and design. With roots in Buildspace and applied research, I investigate how human–technology interaction can create accessible, resilient, and future-ready systems.
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I’m a Research Technologist in entertainment-education, communication, and cybernetics, and founder of the Digital Sidewalk Lab. As the voice of Tellme Networks (Web 1.0 voice platform acquired by Microsoft for $800M), my recordings span major enterprise voice systems representing hundreds of millions of dollars in annual infrastructure value — including American Express, AT&T, Verizon, and many more.
I focus on hybrid spaces and indirect learning that happens when we move from online to offline in communities and individually. My ongoing research centers around the Digital Sidewalk, a paradigm I introduced that extends Jane Jacobs and Gordon Duneier's urban theories using Gordon Pask's Interaction of Actors Theory.
I am currently working on mapping how walking and talking act as living infrastructures for decentralized learning, multilingual exchange, and narrative design. This includes developing applied research projects that test the Digital Sidewalk in practice: from podcasts and Socratic dialogue sessions to community-based educational pilots.
