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January 2011
The Archives
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01.30.11Metanomics Monday: Masterclass on Culture, Anthropology and the Meaning of LifeOK, so not much ground to cover on tomorrow's Metanomics when I host Tom Boellstorff, noted anthropologist and author of the seminal work Coming of Age in Second Life. The discussion lifts off of my previous post on the future of Second Life to which Tom graciously responded in the comments. In follow-up chats with Tom, we toyed with a show focused on the merger of the Teen and Main Grids. We thought we might discuss how our journey as avatars in a virtual world isn't unlike our journey as humans - from "noob" to "teen" to wiser and more mature (um, ...
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01.09.11Second Life Next: 2011So it's the first day on the job as the new CEO of Linden Lab. You've done your homework, of course, and you spent time with Philip and maybe even Mitch or other board members. You've read a few of the blogs, tracked back through Google to do a sort of Second Life history lesson, and you've been mulling over what you learned at your last job. You have a pretty good idea that the staff will be restless. And it's true - most of them have been keeping their heads down the past few months, not a lot has actually ...
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01.01.11The Predictive Power of Virtual WorldsVirtual worlds didn't so much predict the future as provide a giant sandbox in which to explore the different ways that the future could unfold. In presentations, I often say that I could have learned about social media from Facebook, or user-generated content from youTube, but I ended up in Second Life instead - and by ending up there, was able to see that the future isn't necessarily what the conventional wisdom says it will be. I can't imagine having any particular interest in things like on-line governance, privacy, identity, virtual commerce, law, economics, or 3D content development if it ...
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