I have to admit, I've always been a little uneasy when posting material or links to material about Second Life. For one, it's not my domain. Ilya Vedrashko is at home there, I am not. Not yet. Still, given the possibilities this growing virtual world lays before us, I have and do write about it.
So here's the first bit about Second Life I write with a 'light heart', so to speak. SF author Warren Ellis will start doing his "Second Life Sketches" for Reuters, come January 9. Now, you may wonder, and for good reason, why is this important? Second Life has almost everything. Big companies are looking at it as a new market for advertising or even selling their products. Major agencies have reporters "on location". It's crazy. It's something I could never explain to my grandmother properly. So why would anyone who hasn't heard of Warren Ellis care about this?
For one, he's a science fiction writer, one who admits to lean more towards the fiction than the science side. In other words, he's one of the people who don't write about what the future should be but about how it could be. And what is Second Life if not a promised, if ominous future (metaphorically speaking)? Then, Ellis' writing is as savorous as it gets. Anyone who read Transmetropolitan already knows this. Regardless of whether he posts the sketches on his homepage or does them for Reuters, they will be good reading and certainly not your run-of-the-mill reports.
Now, I will wrap this before getting further carried away. One warning though. Once January 9th hits, expect a new report. Outrageous, I know but if I am to cover Second Life, I might as well make it easier by covering the aspects that attract me the most, on a minor level. The perspective view? I will leave that to Ilya Vedrashko, for now.
Happy New Year!
PS: How could this article about Second Life not be easy for me to write? It wasn't about Second Life at all!
For one, he's a science fiction writer, one who admits to lean more towards the fiction than the science side. In other words, he's one of the people who don't write about what the future should be but about how it could be. And what is Second Life if not a promised, if ominous future (metaphorically speaking)? Then, Ellis' writing is as savorous as it gets. Anyone who read Transmetropolitan already knows this. Regardless of whether he posts the sketches on his homepage or does them for Reuters, they will be good reading and certainly not your run-of-the-mill reports.
Now, I will wrap this before getting further carried away. One warning though. Once January 9th hits, expect a new report. Outrageous, I know but if I am to cover Second Life, I might as well make it easier by covering the aspects that attract me the most, on a minor level. The perspective view? I will leave that to Ilya Vedrashko, for now.
Happy New Year!
PS: How could this article about Second Life not be easy for me to write? It wasn't about Second Life at all!
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