As a person myself who’s never been satisfied by all the “virtual worlds” that are abound, MMORPGs, MMOFPS, MMORTS, and MMOwhatever, I was surprised to find that Second Life’s MMOnothing was to my liking. I’d never stayed in one of these games for more than 3 months but SL i’m going on a year and a half.

I suppose that it’s like real life in a lot of senses, except faster. Excluding all the pop culture scene of SL as in eroticism and clubbing, the heart remains in the building and creation, and in this year and a half I have never ceased to remain surprised at how we can advance our techniques and make things better without actually using any better tools. Something like how a wood bow turned into a compound bow or broze weapons turned into iron weapons I suppose, just new discoveries in building techniques.

Speaking of which, you should check out Gibson’s Nexus Prime, it has a Sci-fi Cyberpunk city being built up in the sky, seems like it’d be to your likings.

I want to see it become the new World-Wide Web, but again, I probably lack the proper terminology, much like someone at the turn-of-the-century remarking about “horseless carriages” — totally stuck in the vernacular of their time.

Perhaps my statement suffers the same impediment, but I still think SL can become much more than what it is right now.

Good essay.