Comments on: Second Life the Future of the Internet? http://www.vtoreality.com/2007/second-life-the-future-of-the-internet/1193/ VTOR - Virtual TO Reality, featuring Second Life Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:35:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: McNutt http://www.vtoreality.com/2007/second-life-the-future-of-the-internet/1193/#comment-9623 McNutt Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:26:48 +0000 http://www.vtoreality.com/2007/second-life-the-future-of-the-internet/1193/#comment-9623 I suppose that my justification for engaging in a futurist discussion around virtual worlds is that it's a conversation that's already taking place. I was inspired to write my essay in response to a large number of intelligent, interesting thinkers and observers who are talking about Second Life and other virtual worlds as an inevitability - that THIS is where the online experience is headed next, so all of us (in particular, business folk) need to be prepared for it. My goal in introducing the Uncanny Valley hypothesis to virtual worlds is to cast doubt on that inevitability, but as I point out in my conclusion, I'm certainly not certain about my own views on the future of the Internet. And this is where your final point hits home - the Internet is going to go wherever its users want it to go, one foot in front of the other. I suppose that my justification for engaging in a futurist discussion around virtual worlds is that it’s a conversation that’s already taking place. I was inspired to write my essay in response to a large number of intelligent, interesting thinkers and observers who are talking about Second Life and other virtual worlds as an inevitability - that THIS is where the online experience is headed next, so all of us (in particular, business folk) need to be prepared for it.

My goal in introducing the Uncanny Valley hypothesis to virtual worlds is to cast doubt on that inevitability, but as I point out in my conclusion, I’m certainly not certain about my own views on the future of the Internet. And this is where your final point hits home - the Internet is going to go wherever its users want it to go, one foot in front of the other.

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