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Title: Second Earth - Wade Roush, Technology Review Post by: Tanya on July 12, 2007, 10:24:09 AM Second Earth - Wade Roush, Technology Review
The World Wide Web will soon be absorbed into the World Wide Sim: an environment combining elements of Second Life and Google Earth.... This, then, is how the Metaverse will take shape: through the imaginations of the programmers, merchants, artists, activists, and networkers who are already moving there. If these part-time émigrés from reality want embellishments like running water or six sunsets a day, they'll code their universes that way. The rest of us may smile at their whimsy--but we will take up, and come to depend upon, the serious tools that underlie their play. And if the world we create together is less lonely and less unpredictable than the one we have now, we'll have made a good start. Read More.. (http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18911/) |