Second Life's Growth Debated
Is the reported "growth" of the Second Life economy real, or "virtual." One interesting factoid. The top 25 earners in SL took home $12,000,000 US. That's real!

"Everyone Knows Everything"
-- Alan R. Mulally, CEO, Ford Motor Company

Thus, people around the world will have the same information, allowing them to select an automobile made for a world market, according to Ford's CEO. But the declaration: "Everyone knows everything," applies to much more than just cars. With information becoming ubiquitous, will there also emerge a global ethic, a shared value system, a common culture replacing the cultures that have long been central to our identities as peoples? This is a powerful, and in some ways, frightening thought.

Books About Virtual Reality

If you want to get an idea of how big the virtual reality movement is, and how broad its implications are, just take a quick tour of the books on this topic. Of course, one might consider it ironic that one of the main factors in what is supposed to be a migration away books and towards a culture centering around digital communications technologies has itself spawned so many books. May a thousand flowers bloom! Check out the latest book list now.

And amazingly, the press is covering the topic as well. Are newspapers tracking the story of their own demise?
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