POTENTIAL?
I can see the potential in this software for the future, but I mean waaaaaaaay in the future. So imagine in a 100 years, or even a 1000 years time! the technological advances will hope to make the whole thing so much more believable, and once when it is totally believable?... what going to happen then? plugging your real self into a computer generated environment and carrying out your full time life out in a generated one... the whole thing has tones of 'The Matrix'. I watched that film again recently and because I was doing this project at the time, the thoughts about 'what is an Avatar?' were fresh in my mind. I came to the conclusion that SecondLife (of the future) has the only logical conclusion of operating similar to the environment in 'The Matrix'.
Overall I thought that SecondLife was OK, if you wanted to have fun with it. I found allot of people out there that take the whole thing abit too serious. Steve had encounters with avatars getting really upset about being asked about their avatar identity, he found himself being verbally attacked by an avatar that was 'employed' as a 'secretary' for a 'businessman' defending her 'boss'!!! the whole thing was strange.
T.
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