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Metaverse Messenger, August 22, 2006: Mitch Kapor, Chairman of Linden Lab and a longtime visionary in the world of computers, addressed the 2006 Second Life Community Convention Saturday in San Francisco. Kapor predicted that in five to ten years, SL "or its technological successor" will be as ubiquitous as the World Wide Web is today. Metaverse-style virtual worlds will become integrated with our lives and transform them: "We will need to redefine our definition of reality".
Corante - Second Life Targets Existing Branded Web Communities: Second Life, the apparent runaway winner in the emerging niche of online virtual worlds that are not (according to their publishers) games, passed a major milestone last week with a successful second annual developer and user conference . Much of this conference focused on how consultants and companies are leveraging the commercial and intellectual property regimes of Second Life to build successful businesses around Second Life as a platform... Next up: full-fledged web communities augmenting their online experience with a virtual world. A white paper by Linden Labs distributed at the conference (not posted online yet unfortunately) lays out some early ideas about how this might occur.
The New York Inquirer, How Many Transhumanists Does it Take . . . ? - "I was pleasantly surprised at how interconnected the Second Life conference was with the real world. In the virtual conference room, there were dozens of seats. What began with only a few people ballooned, at times, with almost twenty virtual attendees... I'm not sure how many other conferences worldwide have implemented this real/virtual synergy in the way that the technically-adept folks in Helsinki did... I walked away from the whole experience happy with the way that transhumanists today are taking full advantage of available technology while discussing future technologies that will give us even more options for freedom and interconnectedness".
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