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Second Life as a Product of the Mind

Back in the 1970s, towards the end of the research flurry where com­mu­nic­a­tion sys­tems were being heav­ily stud­ied by both the Brit­ish Post Office and the US Gov­ern­ment, Short and col­leagues (1977) made refer­rence to an idea they termed social pres­ence. Their the­ory was that all forms of com­mu­nic­a­tion var­ied in the degree to which …

January 8, 2010 – 1:33 pm | By Aaron | Posted in research, second life | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (5)

Maybe Second Life isn’t that far from Reality

A little while ago I stumbled across a very inter­est­ing art­icle in a philo­sophy journal. It spoke about an inter­est­ing the­ory of real­ity, and the pos­sib­il­ity that we are all actu­ally liv­ing in a sim­u­lated world.
I’ve heard about the sim­u­lated real­ity the­ory before and never really paid it much atten­tion — the idea that we’re all …

January 6, 2010 – 12:20 am | By Aaron | Posted in Thoughts, second life | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (7)

Telepresence and Second Life Predictions for 2010

OK, I’ll be hon­est with you, I’m prob­ably not the best per­son to make pre­dic­tions. I say that because I’m not hugely up to speed with industry news. My interest in Second Life cur­rent events really only dates back to the last couple of months, whereas I stopped fol­low­ing tele­p­res­ence news back in the begin­ning …

January 3, 2010 – 11:46 pm | By Aaron | Posted in Thoughts | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (3)