Comments on: Crowdsourcing the Future: The Mountains We Can Move

By: Corcosman Voom

Corcosman Voom — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:30:17 +0000

I took a quick walk through the kids’ sims a couple of days ago. Really delightful, good overall design that wanders about in curves rather than a rectangular grid. And, of course, it is designed for play. That is what is so appealing about everyone I have ever met that has a child AV, they like to play. And they are generally very knowledgeable and self confident.

By: TomasG

TomasG — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:34:03 +0000

About 2 years ago, a couple of people adults) decided to grief some kids and kick them into the air. I won’t go into the gory details of the conflict, but needless to say it wasn’t the kids that got kicked into the air and it wasn’t the kids who were perma-banned. The incident gave rise to the saying:

“Don’t mess with the kids… you’ll lose”.

By: Adz Childs

Adz Childs — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:24:21 +0000

Thats fine if you found a group of like-minded people who take turns kicking each other through the sky without anyone getting upset about it. Good for you. Just don’t merge with the rest of us.

By: Anonymus-Not

Anonymus-Not — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:34:09 +0000

Unfortunately, singularity will never happen. What will come instead is war and famine.

The image of a glittering future will quickly turn into dark and scary everydays, we are living this even today. Resources are melting away, while they’re suggesting that inflation is low, around a few percent, the actual inflation of food is extreme.

(Last year in an EU country, flour went up by nearly 60 pct., cooking oil by more than 40, etc.)

The world economy is starting to collapse in the wake of the yellow and the gypsy countries (China and India.) Have you realized how much resource it takes to feed these guys at only 1/2 level of an average “western” culture?

“Meanwhile” all that you can hear about SL5B is some sick souls complaining about their out-ruling of the event. Like anyone cares. And they shouldn’t show together with adults.

What if I kicked one of them into the air knowing he was an adult… what would others think of me who’s beating up “kids”? Or of SL? It’s ok if they play whatever together, but don’t merge with adult avatars, faking they are kids.

Furries are ok, I can kick them into the air and with a bit of misfortune they kick me into the air instead. Fair trade.

And you are not the community. You are just bloggers and their fanboys/-girls. Oh. And the creative cream has contractors, the crop builds for free or for free marketing.

By: Pais Kidd

Pais Kidd — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:35:07 +0000

This take on Kids5B as a metaphor for the essence of Second Life is interesting to ponder. I was lucky enough to TP to the first sim in its empty state to visit Sacha and others there as the discussions started that snowballed and created Kids5B.

Mixed in with the accomplishment of what was created by so many in a short time in the SL context is also that it was done by “kids”, who of course are not really kids, but adults who are pretending to be kids. These “kids” are frustrated by people who can’t separate imagination from reality, but seem to have claim to a moral high-ground. This intolerance, exclusion, and injustice became a powerful motivator.

Meanwhile, as one looks at all the things on the Kids5B sims, it is obvious there is a common theme of it being driven by imagination, joy, fun and a little nostalgia for the things of our childhood and youth that need not be relegated to our pasts but can manifest in this virtual, shared experience.