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Age and Treachery

‘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.

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Wild, wild west 2.0

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.

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Interstitial

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.

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