I attended a fantastic round table event last night on creative uses of Web 2.0 and someone mentioned that there has recently been a divorce case in America, the grounds for which are that the bloke had an affair in 2nd life.
Some people are unnerved by what happens in 2nd life. Financial transactions in 2nd life are real and some people run businesses within 2nd life. Imagine that: People in an artificial environment trading in virtual numbers on a computer screen and then earning real cash from it – hang on a minute, haven’t people have been doing that in the city for years?
I now find myself wondering; if I go into 2nd life and buy a computer, can I install 2nd life on it?
It’s even being used in corporate world: I recently watched a global marketing team within IBM having a collaborative meeting in 2nd life. How many of our activities could be conducted within this virtual world?
It would cut down on travel, but interestingly 2nd life requires so much processing power and storage space that the carbon footprint of living in 2nd life is more than that of living your life in the real world.
Hay it’s a cool place that 2nd life.
Having a 2nd life always used to be something that you didn’t tell your partner about…