Phillip Rosedale – ‘Second Life:’ What Do We Learn If We Digitize EVERYTHING?
November 30th, 02006 by Simone Davalos
2nd Life takes off
What is real life coming to owe digital life?
After a couple years in the flat part of exponential growth, the steep part is now arriving for the massive multi-player online world construction kit called “Second Life.” With 1.7 million accounts, membership in “Second Life” is growing by 20,000 per day. The current doubling rate of “residents” is 7 months, still shortening, which means the growth is (for now) hyperexponential. For this talk the founder and CEO of “Second Life,” Philip Rosedale, tried something new for him— a simultaneous demo and talk. His online avatar, “Philip Linden,” was on the screen showing things while the in-theater Philip Rosedale was conjecturing about what it all means…
Read the rest of Stewart Brand’s Summary
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Posted on August 8th, 2007 at 9:38 am
Interesting article in Tech Review about a bank run in Second Life… Maybe they need to start an SL-DIC
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=19193