hilarious mockup of real-life SL by draft fcb

a book by Bruce Damer (full version in HTML)

Amidst this startling growth it is the producers of these worlds who are confronting in practical terms unprecedented challenges of governing what are in many cases fundamentally open–ended, yet architected, environments.

Closed source virtual worlds exist already - Second Life, There and Active Worlds - but we needed a metaverse engine that is flexible, scalable and that we can customize to an extent not possible within individual proprietary worlds.

by Eva and Franco Mattes
(a.k.a. 0100101110101101.ORG)