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“Real” Life Dreams and “Virtual” Realities

Virtual Worlds will change the nature of who we are. This type of experience changes you, makes you demand change in the real world that is so easy to change in virtual environments…..this technology ends up changing us as people.” Philip Rosedale, Virtual Worlds 2007. I found this drawing on the Clear Night Sky blog. […]

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Developing Worlds, Virtual and Real:
Things happen faster than you think!

Steve Prentice, analyst for Gartner Research, very kindly talked to me on Skype from the Symposium/ITexpo in San Francisco, yesterday. Of course, I asked about his controversial prediction, “the majority of active Internet users and major enterprises will find value in participating in this area [Virtual Worlds] in the coming years.” And: By 2011, 80% […]

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Bridging On Line Off Line Worlds

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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