SecondLife

My good friend Chuck Hamilton at IBM is part of a team championing “serious games” and “serious play” as an emerging global business opportunity.  The driving vision is that a major part of the world’s economy may be transacted within virtual environments like SecondLife within a generation.  In retail, for example, the text-heavy flatness of online shopping will be replaced with bustling, shopper-intensive, clerk-attentive, and product-rich 3D experiences.  I’m sure many of these dreams will come to virtuality, but I’m much more interested in how they will come to reality – how our first and second lives will blend productively using mobile media.