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11.07.09Linden Lab at War: Virtual Worlds and Human TechnologyYou rez a prim in Second Life and you add another prim or two and you have a house, and suddenly your brain starts to believe that there's a sort of pattern of extrapolation everywhere you look: the smallest thing is part of something larger, or has the potential to be part of something larger still, and suddenly I'm at the book store and I start wondering about who chose to categorize the magazines the way they did, why the titles about Photoshop are under art but the ones on 3D design are lumped together in the gaming section, or ...
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05.17.08The Summer Job, Redefined for the Virtual AgeCutting grass, delivering newspapers, flipping burgers and answering phones. Remember these types of jobs? This is how some of us remember spending our summer hours, earning minimum wage and praying for school to start. But even summer jobs are going virtual, according to the Wall Street Journal. The journal reports on six young workers who are finding quite lucrative work in virtual worlds. Six out of the seven young entrepreneurs the story reports on work in Second Life. One designs characters; another is an architect; others develop land. Another kid works in Entropia Universe as a "hunter and trader." The article points out ...
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