November 11th, 2007
We enjoyed a very interesting Ugotrade post focused on the blurring of virtual & real worlds and how this access to, and control of, data & meta data will empower business and government while also being available to benefit people and the planet. Of particular interest was the post’s examination of how the metaverse(s) and paraverse(s) like Google Earth and NASA’s World Wind may actually evolve (and likely merge) to become a phenomena that millions or rather billions of people participate in. As the article summarized:
“…whether virtual worlds remain the heart of a reemergence of read write culture or turn into “boring communication devices†is not so much about “massive info blow back†itself, but more about how the culture that has arisen around social networking and user generated content, again the great exemplar of this is Second Life, is worked out in the confluence of metaverse, paraverse, and meat space…”
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