A long and thought-provoking post on the dangerous lessons of Second Life reminds me again of the “strange loop” and offers insight into how the issues of identity, emotion, trust, and immersion will shape issues in the years to come: years when more and more people will migrate to increasingly “real” synthetic worlds.
Dave Pollard summarizes the negatives of his immersion in Second Life with two observations:
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May 22, 2008 at 10:34 pm
[...] the the 3d metaverse of Second Life might seep back into our atomic life (a distant echo of some of Dusan Writer’s earlier thoughts). Besides a fair number of comments, it has also spurned Kit Meredith to ask the question if atomic [...]
January 8, 2009 at 11:45 pm
[...] in the 3D metaverse of Second Life might seep back into our atomic life (a distant echo of some of Dusan Writer’s earlier thoughts). Besides a fair number of comments, it has also spurned Kit Meredith to ask the question if atomic [...]