Second Life

I am alerted by my friend and colleague Dave to an article in Wired Magazine about Second Life.

I think that the article misses the point ... it tries to see it as a way for them to make money in a similar way to First Life ... they are trying to replicate what they know instead of innovate ... it is easily arguable that SL is, or could be, rather like the great Internet bubble that burst ... but the ones who were there first have already made their money and gone .... think My Space .V. Face book ... the 'players' such as the large commercials just don't get it .... it won't be about SL in the end it will be something else but SL will have spawned it .... so think 'Teflon and the space shuttle'.

The software for SL is changing almost daily ( probably bits are just falling off) that it is bound to evolve soon ... it is a developing experiment and there will be leaders and followers, winners and losers and who is to say that 'progress' always involves going forward.

The poet Ruth Padel says ' There is always a path not taken' ...... listen to the whispers