Second Life Forums Archive - The Future Of Second Life (Look Into My Crystal Ball 50 Years From Now)

Gaybot Foxley

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03-04-2007 09:37

Do you think Second Life will still be around 50 years from now? What do you think will be different? How will the future of the internet change Second Life if SL is still around? Would you leave your screen name and password to a friend or relative for when you are deceased?

Ylikone Obscure

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Join date: 24 Jan 2007

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03-04-2007 10:46

I personally hope that in 50 years we are not still using 2D screens in front of our faces to represent 3D worlds. Many more virtual world systems will pop up and eventually all will be taken over by one large company, somebody like Google (or whatever takes over Google). Virtual life will split into the commercialized version run by corporations and the "underground" open-source version which the rebels inhabit. Second Life and Linden Labs will be long gone and only remembered as pioneers that were too much ahead of their time.

This is all assuming that the there isn't major world clash between the so-called Christians and Muslims that currently control most of the world... and we all perish with the nuclear attacks. Or the planet hasn't become completely incapable of providing for life as we know it because of our pollution.

Deandra Watts

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03-04-2007 10:51

Personally, if I'm still around in 50 years, I'd like to think that things would evolve past SL into another, then another, then another groundbreaking game type (not knowing what games of SL's sort would evolve into, since I'm admittedly non-techy).

I'm of the belief that online gamers are a nomadic bunch that find "the next big thing" and move on to that. We all came here from somewhere else, I figure.

50 years is a long time -- I'm doubting I'll be here in 50 weeks. Not bashing, just expressing my opinion.

Enjoy!

Dea

Dnate Mars

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03-04-2007 10:55

I never would have guessed that I would be here more then 3 years after I joined. SL can be the "next big thing" for a long time as long as it keeps moving forward. Who knows, maybe this really is the "next internet."

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Robin Ivory

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03-04-2007 11:31

For me the question is: "is SL another e-bay or aol"

The potential to dominate the market is there, but how will it be managed?

Tegg Bode

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Join date: 12 Jan 2007

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03-04-2007 11:39

Probably be similar but we will access it by plugging our head dirrectly into a phone grid or even just wireless. Hoping to still be playing games then but my head may have to be in one of those futurama jars.

Conifer Dada

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03-04-2007 12:00

I'd guess virtual worlds will be recognisable but will have total realism graphics, audio communication with customisable voice to suit avatars etc. Whether Second Life is part of this, who would know?

However, life priorities might mean people have less time to spend on the internet. Or maybe governments will restrict what we do on the internet much more.

I don't see myself surviving in SL for more than a few years. I think my RL-er will probably retire me and find someone else to take my place.

Lilliput Boshops

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03-04-2007 12:05

I'll have a better video card by then.

Resolver Bouchard

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03-04-2007 13:19

Well either the world the world will have descended into chaos e.g. Mad Max, Terminator or the Andromeda Strain. Take your pick of disaster scenarios.

or

There will be some sort of virtual reality like SL. With the ability to capture and display real emotion, AI's that are either completely alien or completely human and social structures we can't even imagine.

Daryl Frost

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How big is your crystal ball?

03-04-2007 14:28

From: Deandra Watts

50 years is a long time

Yup. ENIAC was completed about 60 years ago. About 50 years later the internet was opening up!
Anyone who has any idea what the state of play will be in 5 years, let alone 50, needs to get funding for a startup right now!

Kepster Cure

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03-04-2007 14:58

From: Lilliput Boshops

I'll have a better video card by then.

LMAOROF!!! Rich, just rich!

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Kamael Xevious

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03-04-2007 15:02

My crystal ball replies:

Outlook Hazy... ask again later.

Kam

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Kamael Xevious

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03-04-2007 15:07

From: Daryl Frost

Yup. ENIAC was completed about 60 years ago. About 50 years later the internet was opening up!

Fairly true, if you equate the Internet and the web. But we shouldn't forget that the ARPA net (the fledging internet--perhaps the equivalent of where SL is in relation to what's coming) was started roughly 30 years after ENIAC. I'm not correcting you, here, because in all honesty, for most people the Internet IS the web. I'm just pointing out that things move awfully fast in the computer world. And if we consider SL the first step toward the metaverse, I think the things mentioned here will happen much sooner than 50 years from now. In fact, I give some of them FIVE years. We'll see. It's not like I'm ever right about anything.

So despite what my crystal ball says, I do think the Metaverse is coming. I'm just not sure that Linden Lab (as we know it) or Second Life (as we know it) will be part of it. But it's a good start, and a start I'm happy to be a part of.

Kam

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Lightwave Valkyrie

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03-04-2007 20:36

SL wont last long as is, they may make a new version but it will be completely new.
the backward compatablility that is thru out SL will be its demize.
there may be a way to save it with copy and backup and convert but
as we saw with copybot that wont happen. i think SL will die slowly like Activeworlds
and vrml before it. but something better will comealong thats the good news
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Feras Nolan

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03-04-2007 21:21

Ferasdamus visions

SL Year 2008:
Linden Lab manages to release havok 2, Mono and other long promised things, and people are like yahoo , all happy an stuff.
Anshe Chung sends some Dreamland Angels to Iraq as Peacekeepers for a tier of 40L / prim / week and asking the rebels to stop the spinning signs.

SL Year 2010:
Self reopening Folders bug fixed.

SL Year 2011, April:
Self reopening Folders bug fix - bug fixed.

SL Year 2011, May:
Grid down for fixing the Self reopening Folders bug fix - bug fix.
Hell! We'r banging on it!

SL Year 2015:
People start thinking "wtf im doing here", tired of bugs, lag, workarounds and plywood dressed noobs asking for friendship, they go back to RL entratainment and start having a life.

SL Year 2018:
Philip Linden becomes self aware and starts fixing bugs and other issues.

SL Year 2038:
Philip Linden fixes the last bug and the platform is now bugless, but realizes that people left long time before.

SL Year 2744:
Your object 'eXcite boxed' has been returned to your inventory lost and found folder by Ma Group from parcel 'Home sweet Home' at Hugo 62.8443, 14.504 due to parcel auto return.

Colette Meiji

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03-04-2007 21:32

in 50 years the missing image texture bug will be fixed.

Sometime after that they will reduce lag.

Gaybot Foxley

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03-04-2007 22:20

I imagine that each home will come with a "Networking Room" that projects holograms and 3d text with unlimited bandwidth. This will be the new internet. Humans will be able to interact with these rooms through a technobionic implant that is inserted into the brain of each human by the age of 13. This implant also functions as a credit card, hover-car keys, social security number, and telephone. Some holograms will represent other humans in their own Networking Rooms that you can interact with in any way, including thought. The floor of these rooms will have built in treadmill floors to simulate walking or running. It will also have anti gravity technology to replicate flight. Finding a site will simply require the person in the networking room to say a few words or think of the website. Second Life will be accessed through a website in the form of a large door. Once inside, your physical body will represent your avatar, and you may change how others perceive you. There will be no bugs....other than malicious prims that have taken sentient life of their own and wish to dominate the Second Life matrix, lol. Lindens will be replaced with programs called Linden-Bots. Phillip Linden will be lord of Second Life as his soul was uploaded into the Second Life Matrix in 2029.

Tegg Bode

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Join date: 12 Jan 2007

Posts: 5,707

03-04-2007 22:44

From: Feras Nolan

Ferasdamus visions

SL Year 2008:
Linden Lab manages to release havok 2, Mono and other long promised things, and people are like yahoo , all happy an stuff.
Anshe Chung sends some Dreamland Angels to Iraq as Peacekeepers for a tier of 40L / prim / week and asking the rebels to stop the spinning signs.

SL Year 2010:
Self reopening Folders bug fixed.

SL Year 2011, April:
Self reopening Folders bug fix - bug fixed.

SL Year 2011, May:
Grid down for fixing the Self reopening Folders bug fix - bug fix.
Hell! We'r banging on it!

ROFL !

SL Year 2015:
People start thinking "wtf im doing here", tired of bugs, lag, workarounds and plywood dressed noobs asking for friendship, they go back to RL entratainment and start having a life.

SL Year 2018:
Philip Linden becomes self aware and starts fixing bugs and other issues.

SL Year 2038:
Philip Linden fixes the last bug and the platform is now bugless, but realizes that people left long time before.

SL Year 2744:
Your object 'eXcite boxed' has been returned to your inventory lost and found folder by Ma Group from parcel 'Home sweet Home' at Hugo 62.8443, 14.504 due to parcel auto return.

ROFL! Cool thanks

Brenda Archer

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03-04-2007 23:24

From: Feras Nolan

Ferasdamus visions

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LOL! That was good.

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Cristalle Karami

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03-05-2007 01:06

From: Kamael Xevious

My crystal ball replies:

Outlook Hazy... ask again later.

Kam

Haha, sure that isn't a magic 8 ball?

tristan Eliot

Say What?!

Join date: 30 Oct 2005

Posts: 494

03-05-2007 01:17

I predict sim after sim of camping chairs, nite clubs and malls... err nevermind I guess we already have that.

AWM Mars

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03-05-2007 04:24

I have been gazing into my crystal ball for like 50 minutes now..... still hasn't got past the login screen.... oh well.. grid must be down.

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Oryx Tempel

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50 years?

03-06-2007 10:32

We'll all weigh 400 pounds and be pasty white and laying recumbent in our chairs, living out lives where we're all beautiful and thin and young, and we'll have tube feeders and extractors installed so that we never have to leave our chairs.

Jopsy Pendragon

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Join date: 15 Jan 2004

Posts: 1,906

03-06-2007 10:45

From: Oryx Tempel

We'll all weigh 400 pounds and be pasty white and laying recumbent in our chairs, living out lives where we're all beautiful and thin and young, and we'll have tube feeders and extractors installed so that we never have to leave our chairs.

So much for ubitquitous video chat via wifi headsets.

Joe taps his headset, bored for the 30 seconds it takes to get
his mochalertamegacaffeinateyew, and desperate for some face time. His usual vhome is empty so he says "random" and gets connected to:

Sexy GU's Playpen, one user active:

Joe: Hey, I'm at *$'s getting some coffee, what's up !?

GrannyUgly: I'm in the shower, see?

(the feed clarifies as Joe picks up his drink)

(Joe's drink falls to the floor as he scrambles to tear the headset off)

Joe: GAAH!! MY EYES!

Stephanie Abernathy

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Join date: 8 May 2006

Posts: 352

03-06-2007 10:59

From: Feras Nolan

SL Year 2038:
Philip Linden fixes the last bug and the platform is now bugless, but realizes that people left long time before.

I think you are being overly generous. 2038 is much too early.

You are forgetting the 1st law of SL job security:
[1] Create 2 bugs for every 1 bug you fix.
[2] Tout loudly how you are working on [insert bug here].
[3] Create X number of bug fixes, that don't actually address the problem (roll D100), prior to actually fixing the bug (see law #1). The masses must be thrown a bone periodically, so eventually you will need to actually fix a bug.
[4] Distract the masses with new bright shiney objects, bells, whistles and other new bugs, in the hope that they will be forget about the original bug.

The Future Of Second Life (Look Into My Crystal Ball 50 Years From Now)
Gaybot Foxley Input Collector Join date: 15 Nov 2006 Posts: 584	03-04-2007 09:37 Do you think Second Life will still be around 50 years from now? What do you think will be different? How will the future of the internet change Second Life if SL is still around? Would you leave your screen name and password to a friend or relative for when you are deceased?
Ylikone Obscure Amatuer Troll Join date: 24 Jan 2007 Posts: 335	03-04-2007 10:46 I personally hope that in 50 years we are not still using 2D screens in front of our faces to represent 3D worlds. Many more virtual world systems will pop up and eventually all will be taken over by one large company, somebody like Google (or whatever takes over Google). Virtual life will split into the commercialized version run by corporations and the "underground" open-source version which the rebels inhabit. Second Life and Linden Labs will be long gone and only remembered as pioneers that were too much ahead of their time. This is all assuming that the there isn't major world clash between the so-called Christians and Muslims that currently control most of the world... and we all perish with the nuclear attacks. Or the planet hasn't become completely incapable of providing for life as we know it because of our pollution.
Deandra Watts F-Bombardier Join date: 12 Aug 2006 Posts: 485	03-04-2007 10:51 Personally, if I'm still around in 50 years, I'd like to think that things would evolve past SL into another, then another, then another groundbreaking game type (not knowing what games of SL's sort would evolve into, since I'm admittedly non-techy). I'm of the belief that online gamers are a nomadic bunch that find "the next big thing" and move on to that. We all came here from somewhere else, I figure. 50 years is a long time -- I'm doubting I'll be here in 50 weeks. Not bashing, just expressing my opinion. Enjoy! Dea
Dnate Mars Lost Join date: 27 Jan 2004 Posts: 1,309	03-04-2007 10:55 I never would have guessed that I would be here more then 3 years after I joined. SL can be the "next big thing" for a long time as long as it keeps moving forward. Who knows, maybe this really is the "next internet." _____________________ Visit my website: www.dnatemars.com From: Cristiano Midnight This forum is weird.
Robin Ivory Registered User Join date: 20 Jan 2007 Posts: 443	03-04-2007 11:31 For me the question is: "is SL another e-bay or aol" The potential to dominate the market is there, but how will it be managed?
Tegg Bode FrootLoop Roo Overlord Join date: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 5,707	03-04-2007 11:39 Probably be similar but we will access it by plugging our head dirrectly into a phone grid or even just wireless. Hoping to still be playing games then but my head may have to be in one of those futurama jars.
Conifer Dada Hiya m'dooks! Join date: 6 Oct 2006 Posts: 3,716	03-04-2007 12:00 I'd guess virtual worlds will be recognisable but will have total realism graphics, audio communication with customisable voice to suit avatars etc. Whether Second Life is part of this, who would know? However, life priorities might mean people have less time to spend on the internet. Or maybe governments will restrict what we do on the internet much more. I don't see myself surviving in SL for more than a few years. I think my RL-er will probably retire me and find someone else to take my place.
Lilliput Boshops Registered User Join date: 25 Oct 2006 Posts: 89	03-04-2007 12:05 I'll have a better video card by then.
Resolver Bouchard Registered User Join date: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 89	03-04-2007 13:19 Well either the world the world will have descended into chaos e.g. Mad Max, Terminator or the Andromeda Strain. Take your pick of disaster scenarios. or There will be some sort of virtual reality like SL. With the ability to capture and display real emotion, AI's that are either completely alien or completely human and social structures we can't even imagine.
Daryl Frost Registered User Join date: 5 Mar 2005 Posts: 7	How big is your crystal ball? 03-04-2007 14:28 From: Deandra Watts 50 years is a long time Yup. ENIAC was completed about 60 years ago. About 50 years later the internet was opening up! Anyone who has any idea what the state of play will be in 5 years, let alone 50, needs to get funding for a startup right now!
Kepster Cure Paradigm Shifter Join date: 7 Jan 2006 Posts: 198	03-04-2007 14:58 From: Lilliput Boshops I'll have a better video card by then. LMAOROF!!! Rich, just rich! _____________________ Keeping the boundaries distant. -Cure
Kamael Xevious Dreams are like water Join date: 24 May 2004 Posts: 248	03-04-2007 15:02 My crystal ball replies: Outlook Hazy... ask again later. Kam _____________________ IX Exotica--It's where you want to be!
Kamael Xevious Dreams are like water Join date: 24 May 2004 Posts: 248	03-04-2007 15:07 From: Daryl Frost Yup. ENIAC was completed about 60 years ago. About 50 years later the internet was opening up! Fairly true, if you equate the Internet and the web. But we shouldn't forget that the ARPA net (the fledging internet--perhaps the equivalent of where SL is in relation to what's coming) was started roughly 30 years after ENIAC. I'm not correcting you, here, because in all honesty, for most people the Internet IS the web. I'm just pointing out that things move awfully fast in the computer world. And if we consider SL the first step toward the metaverse, I think the things mentioned here will happen much sooner than 50 years from now. In fact, I give some of them FIVE years. We'll see. It's not like I'm ever right about anything. So despite what my crystal ball says, I do think the Metaverse is coming. I'm just not sure that Linden Lab (as we know it) or Second Life (as we know it) will be part of it. But it's a good start, and a start I'm happy to be a part of. Kam _____________________ IX Exotica--It's where you want to be!
Lightwave Valkyrie Registered User Join date: 30 Jan 2004 Posts: 666	03-04-2007 20:36 SL wont last long as is, they may make a new version but it will be completely new. the backward compatablility that is thru out SL will be its demize. there may be a way to save it with copy and backup and convert but as we saw with copybot that wont happen. i think SL will die slowly like Activeworlds and vrml before it. but something better will comealong thats the good news -LW _____________________ L$ is the root of all evil videos work! thanks SL
Feras Nolan Registered User Join date: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 141	03-04-2007 21:21 Ferasdamus visions SL Year 2008: Linden Lab manages to release havok 2, Mono and other long promised things, and people are like yahoo , all happy an stuff. Anshe Chung sends some Dreamland Angels to Iraq as Peacekeepers for a tier of 40L / prim / week and asking the rebels to stop the spinning signs. SL Year 2010: Self reopening Folders bug fixed. SL Year 2011, April: Self reopening Folders bug fix - bug fixed. SL Year 2011, May: Grid down for fixing the Self reopening Folders bug fix - bug fix. Hell! We'r banging on it! SL Year 2015: People start thinking "wtf im doing here", tired of bugs, lag, workarounds and plywood dressed noobs asking for friendship, they go back to RL entratainment and start having a life. SL Year 2018: Philip Linden becomes self aware and starts fixing bugs and other issues. SL Year 2038: Philip Linden fixes the last bug and the platform is now bugless, but realizes that people left long time before. SL Year 2744: Your object 'eXcite boxed' has been returned to your inventory lost and found folder by Ma Group from parcel 'Home sweet Home' at Hugo 62.8443, 14.504 due to parcel auto return.
Colette Meiji Registered User Join date: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 15,556	03-04-2007 21:32 in 50 years the missing image texture bug will be fixed. Sometime after that they will reduce lag.
Gaybot Foxley Input Collector Join date: 15 Nov 2006 Posts: 584	03-04-2007 22:20 I imagine that each home will come with a "Networking Room" that projects holograms and 3d text with unlimited bandwidth. This will be the new internet. Humans will be able to interact with these rooms through a technobionic implant that is inserted into the brain of each human by the age of 13. This implant also functions as a credit card, hover-car keys, social security number, and telephone. Some holograms will represent other humans in their own Networking Rooms that you can interact with in any way, including thought. The floor of these rooms will have built in treadmill floors to simulate walking or running. It will also have anti gravity technology to replicate flight. Finding a site will simply require the person in the networking room to say a few words or think of the website. Second Life will be accessed through a website in the form of a large door. Once inside, your physical body will represent your avatar, and you may change how others perceive you. There will be no bugs....other than malicious prims that have taken sentient life of their own and wish to dominate the Second Life matrix, lol. Lindens will be replaced with programs called Linden-Bots. Phillip Linden will be lord of Second Life as his soul was uploaded into the Second Life Matrix in 2029.
Tegg Bode FrootLoop Roo Overlord Join date: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 5,707	03-04-2007 22:44 From: Feras Nolan Ferasdamus visions SL Year 2008: Linden Lab manages to release havok 2, Mono and other long promised things, and people are like yahoo , all happy an stuff. Anshe Chung sends some Dreamland Angels to Iraq as Peacekeepers for a tier of 40L / prim / week and asking the rebels to stop the spinning signs. SL Year 2010: Self reopening Folders bug fixed. SL Year 2011, April: Self reopening Folders bug fix - bug fixed. SL Year 2011, May: Grid down for fixing the Self reopening Folders bug fix - bug fix. Hell! We'r banging on it! ROFL ! SL Year 2015: People start thinking "wtf im doing here", tired of bugs, lag, workarounds and plywood dressed noobs asking for friendship, they go back to RL entratainment and start having a life. SL Year 2018: Philip Linden becomes self aware and starts fixing bugs and other issues. SL Year 2038: Philip Linden fixes the last bug and the platform is now bugless, but realizes that people left long time before. SL Year 2744: Your object 'eXcite boxed' has been returned to your inventory lost and found folder by Ma Group from parcel 'Home sweet Home' at Hugo 62.8443, 14.504 due to parcel auto return. ROFL! Cool thanks
Brenda Archer Registered User Join date: 28 Apr 2005 Posts: 557	03-04-2007 23:24 From: Feras Nolan Ferasdamus visions . LOL! That was good. _____________________
Cristalle Karami Lady of the House Join date: 4 Dec 2006 Posts: 6,222	03-05-2007 01:06 From: Kamael Xevious My crystal ball replies: Outlook Hazy... ask again later. Kam Haha, sure that isn't a magic 8 ball?
tristan Eliot Say What?! Join date: 30 Oct 2005 Posts: 494	03-05-2007 01:17 I predict sim after sim of camping chairs, nite clubs and malls... err nevermind I guess we already have that.
AWM Mars Scarey Dude :¬) Join date: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 3,398	03-05-2007 04:24 I have been gazing into my crystal ball for like 50 minutes now..... still hasn't got past the login screen.... oh well.. grid must be down. _____________________ * Politeness is priceless when received, cost nothing to own or give, yet many cannot afford - Why do you only see typo's AFTER you have clicked submit? http://www.wba-advertising.com http://www.nex-core-mm.com http://www.eml-entertainments.com http://www.v-innovate.com
Oryx Tempel Registered User Join date: 8 Nov 2006 Posts: 7,663	50 years? 03-06-2007 10:32 We'll all weigh 400 pounds and be pasty white and laying recumbent in our chairs, living out lives where we're all beautiful and thin and young, and we'll have tube feeders and extractors installed so that we never have to leave our chairs.
Jopsy Pendragon Perpetual Outsider Join date: 15 Jan 2004 Posts: 1,906	03-06-2007 10:45 From: Oryx Tempel We'll all weigh 400 pounds and be pasty white and laying recumbent in our chairs, living out lives where we're all beautiful and thin and young, and we'll have tube feeders and extractors installed so that we never have to leave our chairs. So much for ubitquitous video chat via wifi headsets. Joe taps his headset, bored for the 30 seconds it takes to get his mochalertamegacaffeinateyew, and desperate for some face time. His usual vhome is empty so he says "random" and gets connected to: Sexy GU's Playpen, one user active: Joe: Hey, I'm at *$'s getting some coffee, what's up !? GrannyUgly: I'm in the shower, see? (the feed clarifies as Joe picks up his drink) (Joe's drink falls to the floor as he scrambles to tear the headset off) Joe: GAAH!! MY EYES!
Stephanie Abernathy Susan Ivanova Wannabe Join date: 8 May 2006 Posts: 352	03-06-2007 10:59 From: Feras Nolan SL Year 2038: Philip Linden fixes the last bug and the platform is now bugless, but realizes that people left long time before. I think you are being overly generous. 2038 is much too early. You are forgetting the 1st law of SL job security: [1] Create 2 bugs for every 1 bug you fix. [2] Tout loudly how you are working on [insert bug here]. [3] Create X number of bug fixes, that don't actually address the problem (roll D100), prior to actually fixing the bug (see law #1). The masses must be thrown a bone periodically, so eventually you will need to actually fix a bug. [4] Distract the masses with new bright shiney objects, bells, whistles and other new bugs, in the hope that they will be forget about the original bug.

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