Freaky-Deaky 21st Century
“2 Worlds Forge New Reality” is an article in today’s Chicago Tribune that tackles the rise of 3D worlds from Second Life to There.com and beyond. My favorite passage:
“This is going to be one freaky-deaky 21st Century,” said Jerry Paffendorf, the “resident futurist” at the Electric Sheep Co., which designs virtual world projects for businesses. “The amount of technological change in the next 10 years is going to equal the entire last century. We’re not going to use that technology to send e-mail faster. We’re going to use it to build virtual worlds.”