Comments on Second Tense: 10 Outlandish VW Predictions for 2011

Oh yes... and Cacodaemon... I remember playing D&a...

2011-01-18T05:43:37.799-05:00

Oh yes... and Cacodaemon... I remember playing D&D :) Who knows, some people believe that by playing pencil-and-paper role-playing games we were all somehow "predisposed" to find virtual worlds amusing and engaging, and this would explain the high number of "old-school" RPG players that are around virtual worlds these days.

Then again, people believe pretty much

Nah, I don't believe any of your predictions e...

2011-01-18T05:40:30.843-05:00

Nah, I don't believe any of your predictions except, of course, for #8, which is the only one that is surprising and shows excellent predictive powers!

The rest is either obvious or it already happened. :) Google won't take over the world without buying Apple first, however :)

It was great fun to read... specially about Sheboygan, Wisconsin!!

@Jon: Yeah, mine was just an uncredited blurb abo...

2011-01-06T13:05:29.451-05:00

@Jon:

Yeah, mine was just an uncredited blurb about the Landing Lights Park project.

shucks, it can't be... Gore was the July issue...

2011-01-06T12:42:51.607-05:00

shucks, it can't be... Gore was the July issue, and my rez day is in June. Looks like there was an article about Phil Rosedale in June. Oh well, still a small (virtual) world, lol.

Wow! Maybe that article featuring your work was t...

2011-01-06T12:41:29.270-05:00

Wow! Maybe that article featuring your work was the one that kick-started this whole crazy trip for me!

http://www.suck.com/daily/1995/12/15/ enjoy the i...

2011-01-06T12:10:20.794-05:00

http://www.suck.com/daily/1995/12/15/

enjoy the irony

Wired jumped the shark by web 1.0times -2001...the...

2011-01-06T12:06:55.651-05:00

Wired jumped the shark by web 1.0times -2001...the web killed wired...

suck.com was the last good thing.

entire articles in print about "green fuels" that profiled BOB LAZAR a few years later was my final nail in the wired coffin.. i stopped buying it monthly around then....

Wired was indeed cool back in 2006, especially whe...

2011-01-06T11:55:55.478-05:00

Wired was indeed cool back in 2006, especially when my very first professional virtual world project get a picture and a paragraph at the bottom of page 42 in the Al Gore cover issue. Heh. They became uncool when they trashed virtual worlds after having an unsuccessful go in Second Life. Their developer thought that building a building and then sitting on their hands was a good idea. Apparently

Wow, that really is some crazy synchronicity! I n...

2011-01-06T11:50:18.870-05:00

Wow, that really is some crazy synchronicity! I nearly spit out my coffee laughing when I read that.

hey btw, Wired was still cool back in 2006, wasn't it? ;-)

Sorry, Jon! I actually looked it up before posting...

2011-01-06T10:53:17.606-05:00

Sorry, Jon! I actually looked it up before posting (hence the link to the Google Maps) but somehow that "c" slipped in there. FIXED!

RE: Your anecdote. Coincidence. Well, coincidence, if you don't believe in synchronicity. I picked Sheboygan because someone had used it as an example of a somewhat obscure place in America, and it was fresh on my mind. The dentist part was

Great predictions, but you spelled "Sheboygan...

2011-01-06T10:34:56.860-05:00

Great predictions, but you spelled "Sheboygan" wrong, and it matters.. to me, anyway, lol.

Maybe you're just messing with me on this prediction, but it just so happens that Sheboygan, Wisconsin was ground zero for my transition into virtual worlds. I was living just outside of Sheboygan when I happened to pick up Wired magazine one day in 2006 - a move that would

now you get it. they all will be shown "corre...

2011-01-05T17:28:41.806-05:00

now you get it.
they all will be shown "correct"..but the time frame will be more like 5 years for them all to run their course...

"how i predict the future, by making fun of the present"---

c3

My favorite is #4. And I laughed soda out my nose...

2011-01-04T12:33:29.975-05:00

My favorite is #4.

And I laughed soda out my nose.

Very creative. Actually I am hoping for the Micro...

2011-01-04T12:09:28.333-05:00

Very creative. Actually I am hoping for the Microsoft virtual world part badly, the rest are the kind of impossible mouse traps that can make us think. True Science Fiction at its best.