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    The future of SecondLife

    in General Discussion Forum

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    Phil Deakins wrote:

    MasterJedi Nayar wrote:

    I have seen this 3-D virtual reality grow a lot since I first started in Augutst 17, 2007.  I have seen a good many make real life money in SL.  There is more to SL than making a living.  Education is an all time high.  There is so much that can be done in the conventional world.  SecondLife broadens that horizon.  I think that with all the social netowrking system, including SecondLife, the economy can move in the direction it should.  The Industrial Age was a wonderful experience.  Now it is the 21st Century and beyond. 
    We need to focus on this new age
    ...I call "The Global Humanity Age."

    All the social networking has reached it peak and still growing biger and faster
    .  SecondLife is one of them with a different aspect, 3-D reality.  In its wonder, I hope that onter innovations will come forth.  As there are different types of ways we socialize online (FaceBook, Twitter, Google Plus, etc.), there can be other innovative ways to share and experience 3-D online activities as we might do in real life but never had the chance.

    So focus.

    Make up your mind. It can't be still growing if it's already peaked
    ;)

    But . . . but . . . but . . . that is what it said in LL's Marketing Department's briefing paper for this event!

    What new uses do you think the General Discussion forum should be put to?

    in General Discussion Forum

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    Theresa Tennyson wrote:

    Too much of anything can get old quickly, be it self-serving sentimental slush or smug, sensatiionalized snark or even the letter "S". When are you going to come out of your altcave and join us in-world, Botham? I've been searching on you and you haven't shown up yet. You sound interesting, though probably not as interesting as you think you are.

    You don't think I am stupid enough to compromise the stability and future of my inworld business empire by entrusting it to the capricious nature of a hungover moderator who just got dumped by her girlfriend before being informed she had been scheduled Christmas Day and New Year's Eve shifts? This is, of course, a disposable forum alt.

    Don't be surprised if you receive overly-familiar invitations from strange men via IM inworld in the near future.

    Although isn't that what happens all the time?

    What is the Main Reason for SL's Failure?

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    Solipcyst wrote:

    BothamFidor wrote:

    Surely the answer is the same as for every other company that leads the market with disruptive technology: once they have broken the paradigm (if an analogous one even exists) or stretched the envelope...

    If SL is a failure in any respect, it's in its ability to provide the disruptive technology you speak of here.

    Hubris is not reality and if we really were looking for Linden Labs to create a gale of "Creative Destruction" of the kind described by Schumpeter, we've been badly let down.

    At the most we've been privy to a small squeak of embarrassing flatulence. The pervasive scent of which belies the feeble physical reality of its source.

    Technological ubiquity is accelerating rapidly to pervade every part of our lives, which I guess by its nature may ultimately realise our personal immersion within some sort of physical/digital continuum.

    This is all happening elsewhere however, and not in the vacant little gold rush town we know of as Second Life. The galloping hordes have disappeared over the horizon, visible to those left behind only by the cloud of dust blown back towards us on the breeze.

    I believe that in a few years, the idea that SL was capable of providing the technological epiphany of which you speak will be seen as quaint and amusing, if not downright ridiculous.

     

    Hmm, I noted the appearance of your name on the "new members" list and I wondered whether something like this might be forthcoming . . .

    While I was not disappointed, I hope I am not going to disappoint you, since I am afraid I agree with your post almost in its entirety. I also applaud its presentation. What a shame it will be wasted on most.

    LL may have had a miniscule window of opportunity, but the blinds came down long ago.

    Fidor

    (Oh, and don't tell the LL Marketing Department that it is the 21st Century; we don't want to wake them up!)

     

    What new uses do you think the General Discussion forum should be put to?

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    Theresa Tennyson wrote:

    Trying to get others to agree with one's rather exaggerated sense of self-coolness by spamming a lot of snarky threads? Oh wait, that's been done...

    I wouldn't mind so much if they hadn't stickied their self-serving sentimental slush so the actual interesting stuff disappears below the fold. This is propagandist censorship of the worst kind. RIC the posts and get them unstuck!!!

    Forum Tone

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    Eloise Baily wrote:

    While I'm here, I think a read of the LL asked Question, what are the books and movies that inspired you in Second Life gives a perfect example of the forum tone . . . That thread looks condescending and rude to me.

    Surely not!

    (You should not really be criticising the Lindens, you know, even if they do start a bunch of spammy condescending threads.)

    Forum Tone

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    Lillie Woodells wrote:

    Hi there.  I've been lurking on this thread and seeing some interesting and valid posts.  I wasn't going to respond, but felt compelled because
    Caroro
    , you've made some points that  touched on something I've been thinking about as well.

    Maybe you should have remained lurking until you appreciated that it is a courtesy to other posters to get their name right, especially since it is there in black and white for you to copy.

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