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08.03.08Philip Rosedale’s Second Round: Second Life is a Terrarium, Interview with New York TimesYesterday, I covered Philip Rosedale comparing the immersive qualities of Second Life to World of Warcraft in order to explain what makes it different from, say, Google's Lively. Today, Second Life is a terrarium and in fact IS representative of the small world - just that it's not that the virtual world that's small and room-like, it's the real one that's shrinking. In an article in the New York Times, Philip talks about the properties of Second Life as a site for collaboration and as perfectly fitted to the wider trend of collapsing geography. Philip says that Second Life helps to ...
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