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By sogrady
— October 8, 2006 at 11:21 pm
  • http://tieguy.org/ Luis

    I think it is hilarious that Sun is holding a press conference in software that is only barely supported on an OS that they themselves only barely support. This is a good discussion of why SL might be interesting, or at least it is until the first comment by Prokofy Neva, at which point you should stop reading.

  • rektide

    Uh, you’d need to start reading a lot of sci fi to really understand Second Life. Accelerando and John Wright’s Golden Transcendence both come to mind. SL is interesting for two reasons; the first historic; it is the first stable virtuality human kind has invented (interactive, manipulable, consistent). the second because the its the future new computing paradigm. Small script agents running at massive concurrency levels. Economic functions to allocate available computing power. Cross system process migration, untrusted code, its hte first computational environment complex enough to start really hitting the big deep problems of distributed systems.

    I’d highly suggest the recent hour speech from the Lang.NET symposium this year,
    http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/4/1/94138e2a-d9dc-435a-9240-bcd985bf5bd7/Jim-Cory-SecondLife.wmv

    Keep in mind this is all heresay.