Business Week has been tracking Second Life for a long time. The lead article in a special report today on “Virtual Life” says, in part:
All these developments have one thing in common: They suggest that before long, the Internet of the future, and the vast wealth of information and services on it, will look different: slicker, more realistic, more interactive and social than anything we experience today through the Web browser. “Three-dimensional virtual worlds will, in the near future, be pervasive interfaces for the Internet,” says Bob Moore, a sociologist who studies virtual worlds at Palo Alto Research Center, or PARC, the legendary Xerox lab in Silicon Valley.
The article is entitled “The Coming Virtual Web.” It’s not just focused on SL, but rather on the concept of a 3D Internet even more pervasive than the current one. Related stories include:
- The Virtual Meeting Room
- Digital Suburbia
- I Was a Second Life B-School Student
- The Coming Virtual Web
- Big Spenders of Second Life
- Virtual World Rich List
- When Griefers Attack
Spend a little time perusing this one. It’s solid food for thought.
