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THIS IS IT this is it, it's coming!!!
Oh I'm so excited. B and I logged on last night on the 7dayfreetrial for Second Life. The possibilities are endless. His mind is blown. I'm trying to stop myself from my egoful 'I told you so-ing'. Yes I dreamt this back in 97 (when I was not involved with computers at ALL- not even email). The dream was intricate and detailed ...about the power of charity/philanthropy memes within this bizarre, completely engaging immersive 3d environment portal to be.
Since then I have been on a sort of quest..and now the graphics have evolved to be engaging enough (you'll be wowed) and it all seems to be coming together!! Look!:
"Morgantown, WV -- June 4, 2004 -- On May 28, thirty or so people gathered for a charity auction to raise funds for the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF). They bid on a variety of items, including one of a kind couture from the world's top designers and a set of sculptures from an up and coming artist, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars. What makes this event so unique isthey gathered in the online world of Second Life(r) and the hundreds of thousands they raised were in the game's currency -- Linden dollars -- that were then converted to US$900 on the currency exchange site Gaming Open Market (GOM).
This event was the culmination of a month-long fundraising campaign launched in Second Life by Virtual Economies Realizing True Usefulness (VERTU), a virtual non-profit organization founded by player Sarah Einstein. Einstein, who is known in world as Bhodi Silverman, started VERTU as a way to bring real world philanthropy to the gaming community. Says Einstein, "I wanted to create a way for the virtual community to participate in real world efforts for social justice and to bring awareness of these issues into Second Life."
The EFF campaign, VERTU's first, raised over $1,700.00 during a month of activities that included parties, auctions and even lectures with EFF's Activism Coordinator, Ren Bucholz, on topics such as Exporting American IP: Trade Agreements, Treaties and Policy Laundering. "This is a great example of what can happen if technology users aren't treated solely as 'consumers.' I'm really happy to have been a part of this," says Bucholz about the campaign."
READ all about it, see links and project ahead!!!!
Since then I have been on a sort of quest..and now the graphics have evolved to be engaging enough (you'll be wowed) and it all seems to be coming together!! Look!:
"Morgantown, WV -- June 4, 2004 -- On May 28, thirty or so people gathered for a charity auction to raise funds for the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF). They bid on a variety of items, including one of a kind couture from the world's top designers and a set of sculptures from an up and coming artist, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars. What makes this event so unique isthey gathered in the online world of Second Life(r) and the hundreds of thousands they raised were in the game's currency -- Linden dollars -- that were then converted to US$900 on the currency exchange site Gaming Open Market (GOM).
This event was the culmination of a month-long fundraising campaign launched in Second Life by Virtual Economies Realizing True Usefulness (VERTU), a virtual non-profit organization founded by player Sarah Einstein. Einstein, who is known in world as Bhodi Silverman, started VERTU as a way to bring real world philanthropy to the gaming community. Says Einstein, "I wanted to create a way for the virtual community to participate in real world efforts for social justice and to bring awareness of these issues into Second Life."
The EFF campaign, VERTU's first, raised over $1,700.00 during a month of activities that included parties, auctions and even lectures with EFF's Activism Coordinator, Ren Bucholz, on topics such as Exporting American IP: Trade Agreements, Treaties and Policy Laundering. "This is a great example of what can happen if technology users aren't treated solely as 'consumers.' I'm really happy to have been a part of this," says Bucholz about the campaign."
READ all about it, see links and project ahead!!!!
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A few years ago, there was a similar, but mush less pretty 3D environment called ActiveWorlds. Did you ever visit that? Many many similar social concepts and experiments existed there, although I must say that AW just a 3D chatroom for most people I encountered. My daughter spent a lot of time building environments there over the course of 2 or 3 years.
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ActiveWorlds was what I had been looking into, researching before. All in theory. We never actually downloaded it, though we meant to. I was absolutely mesmerized by screenshots and articles especially by the aerial maps (http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/muds_vw.html) (scroll down on that page) of its growth over 3 years and the implications of that.It seemed to have so many of the components needed. Sims Online was another. One that is supposedly on par or almost as good as SecondLife is called 'There'. We have not looked into that one. Seems SecondLife and There are the main ones now, the most advanced.
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I'm just so excited that the philanthropy meme has already been introduced and seems to be spreading quickly in these worlds, and according to message boards, there's even a bit of competitiveness going on between There and SecondLife with regards to raising donations and spreading information inworld about various benevolent organizations.!! If my predictions are correct, we will be open to a different view of self soon (en masse), where pleasure/play/reward is positively and inextricably linked with helping humanity as a whole.Where symbiosis rules. Where as John Nash tried to explain mathematically(in A Beautiful Mind)we all get the blonde.;)
ohboy, I'm in for this ride.
SecondLife, making the evolution of our species Fun. hehe. breeeeliant.
let's play.