Terrific Presentation on Second Life and Virtual Worlds

Just saw by far the best presentation and discussion I have seen yet on Second Life, virtual worlds and its future. Philip Rosedale - CEO of Second Life - elaborates on a lot of key topics like copyrights, imagination, dreams, identity, transformation and the rise of the immaterial values, Burning Man Festival, 3D interfaces, open source clients, decentralization and emergence, virtual corporation and cooperation, skyscrapers as museum pieces, creativity, community, authenticity, learning, the time accelleration within Second Life and the importance, nature and meaning of the mindset (and its expectations) of virtual worlds in relation to the real world. The Q&A is even better than the presentation of Rosedale, among others with Steward Brand and Kevin Kelly. There are so many stunning insights in this Q&A to mention them all in this spot. What I expect personally is that the rise of 3D printers will increase the importance of virtual world objects in the real world.  Strongly recommended (just like the Metaverse Roadmap Report I mentioned earlier). It is not an accident this presentation from the Long Now Foundation on Fora.tv has 5 (out of 5) stars ;-)

Comments

[Maarten Lens-FitzGerald]

I guess i wont go to the picnic event tonite and watch this instead. Looks promising. Now give me 1,5 hours to watch it.

[Yuri]

Maarten,

:-)

Sometimes content truncation dissolves value in my view. This presentation is worth every second of it ;-)

[smallduck]

This viewer is crap. I want to download this video to watch full screen, but I cannot. FORA.tv sucks ass big time.

[Yuri]

Hi Smallduck,

I agree with your point on full screen viewing. Perhaps a good idea if we send them an e-mail notifying them of our needs and wants ? I will do it today anyway.