In this IBM’s futurologist Irving Wladaswky-Berger posted this about the work IBM is doing in Second Life. He talks about how IBM hosted a meeting there, how they created a virtual Wimbledon there, and suggests that the virtual world phenomena might be as important as the internet overall.
It’s difficult to wrap your mind around how exactly, by I have a strong sense that virtual worlds will be hugely significant.
Agreed – just look at http://www.pkr.com to see how ‘virtuality’ is getting in all parts of our lives.
Question is…do we want the hucksters in our First Life cluttering up our Second one?
[...] This is not very different from the way that many companies are using Second Life. IBM for example have built five (or so) islands in Second Life and regularly use them to hold meetings as a sort of enhanced video conference facility – I have commented on this before. The eightbar blog is written by IBMers who are interested in this area and has some interesting stuff on it. Similarly there is the Harvard classroom I blogged about here. [...]