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Can You be A Citizen of a Virtual World?

19. April 2007

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Online communities play an important role in positive global change not just because they bring crises to world attention, Hollywood celebrities are even better at doing this! More importantly, they bring together diverse aspects of the global community/polity to make human dignity and freedom a priority in a world seemingly dominated by global competition (see […]

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Bridging On Line Off Line Worlds

15. April 2007

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In the year of 2010, 70% of the population in the developed nations will pass ten times more time per day interacting with people in the virtual world than in the physical world, says Charles Abrams a Director of Research for Gartner in, Internet Midia Digital. What with the upcoming launch of Second Life Brasil, […]

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Croquet – Blowing Holes in Castle Walls

12. April 2007

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“Croquet was built to answer a simple question, ‘If we were to create a new operating system and user interface knowing what we know today, how far could we go?’” So, in simple terms, Croquet is a new operating system with a virtual 3D world as the human interface to the OS. The latter is […]

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