A final round-up of the discussions on the banking ban leads to the question if the wild guesswork done by pundits (yours truly not excepted) on Linden Lab’s motivation isn’t very much reflecting the current state of Second LifeYou-Know-Where’s society.
Linden Lab banning in-world banks might man much more to the evolution of Second LifeYou-Know-Where society than the measure in itself suggests.
A rant on SLY-K-W’s user interface, triggered by Hamlet Au’s ‘Is Second LifeYou-Know-Where’s User Interface Cursed by Knowledge?’ post on New World Notes.
‘Age and Treachery Will Always Overcome Youth and Skill’ started as a joke on a film set, but there is truth in it for Second LifeYou-Know-Where. But AjaxLife programmer Katharine Berry’s disgruntlement with the Teen Grid should alarm adult Second LifeYou-Know-Where residents to the necessity of merging the grids.
Experiencing griefing is frustrating, and seeing Linden Lab’s non-response compounds that frustration. To me, his experience made clear we have to think of Second LifeYou-Know-Where as a world, and why residents need to start building a real society.
Despite the graphical bells and whistles, Second LifeYou-Know-Where shares may traits with older virtual worlds; observations made there thus still apply. I’ll hazard the guess the reality of the Metaverse lies in the interstitial space between the physical and the virtual.