As demonstrators can’t go to Davos, one decided to express his opinions in the Second Life Reuters interview room.
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Second Life in the FT
Funnily enough, after writing an entry about Second life yesterday, I found an article about it in today’s issue of the FT. I don’t think Alan Cane quite “gets it” with his metaphor that Second Life is just a more advanced way of current icon-based interfases, it seems to me over-simplistic. The most interesting thing about it in my opinion is that when you’re interacting in an environment that looks closer to the real world, you will react in ways that are closer to the real world, and create social bonds that are closer to those of the real world. I may be wrong of course.
Second Life
Second Life is a 3D virtual world. Just tried it and was absolutely amazed by its functionality (including a virtual economy), customisability, and the whole “feel” of it. We hear at the CWF about how are residents using this world to do things that they wouldn’t be otherwise able to, even at work. I’ve tried not to use it too much because it is quite addictive.
Talking with a friend of mine about it he came to the conclusion that the danger of it (exposed in many cyberpunk novels before) is that people would use these kind of virtual worlds to escape reality. Whereas I’m sure that some will do exactly that, I believe most people will learn to live with it, as it is a tool to engage imagination and create something new, which in the physical world may not exist.
Could anybody with more experience on it share their insight?