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

I haven't stopped laughing since I read this, and it's Tuesday!!! Simply hilarious Steph

Isn't that just part of "life" ?

In RL bugs just reproduce without any help from the residents.

Call in the exterminator all we want... they still come back.

I predict that in the future the 2 biggest complaints about the megaverse will be Lag and customer service.

oh, still?

Guaranteed !

In 20 years, 50 years, 100 years.

Nothing will ever work as fast as people think it should.

And customer service will never be "good enough'

Anyone remember Windows 2.0? Came on 6 floppy discs (for you younguns 6x1.44mb=8.64mb) Hard discs measured in 32mb for a large one. A time when Blue screens were considered screen savers (kicked in after a few minutes of inactivity, usually when a programme was loading and reached 99%). If you were rich you had 256kb's Ram, no internet, no CD Rom drives, 256 colours graphics.....

The bigger it gets, the more bugs are written the harder it is to fix. How many times have the PC faternity been told by the marketeers, this is THE most stable version of any OS? Oh and BTW, it now comes with 2+gb's of 'Service Packs', hope you are not on dial-up as each day you are going to have to download many MB's of 'Updates' (they don't like to call them Security breaches in the core code anymore).

Having suffered the install of Vista, after only a week after it was 'released' (sounds like a plague), It connected to the internet and downloaded 100's of MB's of 'updates'.

If the computer industry was related to the Car industry, we would all be Crash Dummies, with a huge difference, we actually pay to have that job!

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

Lag ...and plenty of it .

No teleport .. but we will be able to teleport in real lif by then so no big deal .

People who wear anything with a bling script will be hunted down and killed by hords of greifers ( I like the sound of that one )

Noobies will still show up on your land dancing and jigging about and say " How do i stop dancing ??? " and meet the same reply they get now " DON'T F*%$&* START IN THE FIRST PLACE !!1!!!!11 ! "

Sex pose balls will have evolved into thinking objects and will tell you " Not tonight i havd a headache "

Girls will still have the pricless prase in the about me section of ther profile " DONT MAP ME ! " ... half of them not even know what it means and the other half not understanding the concept that it can no longer even be done .

Non of the items we have all had stolen from our inventorys by the Linden Lag Monster will ever be returned even thogh we send in a bug report's every 20 mins for a week just to get a responce

Its looking pretty scetchy after that ... the ball cloud's over ... but the last bit i see is... wait ...... its fading ........ ahh ... i see it ...... Yes ... noobs will still walk around with box's on head thinking its funny and that we have never seen it befor and that thay invented it

whew!! the part about the dancing noobies.....tears in my eyes!!

My prediction:- 50 years from now....

We will have real teleports in RL.

The internal combustion engine will have been abolished.

Newcomers to 'online' games will still be called Noobies.

The internet will be biological based, as will the 'PC'.

A VR world, will be Holodeck (trekie stuff there) in your own home.

Keyboards and the humble mouse, will all be in museums.

You will either be wearing an equivilant of a PC, or implanted at birth.

Lag will be as forgotten in history as the steam engine.

Anshe Chung will own 90% of Eastern Asia.

Some people will still try and sell freebie penises to newcomers.

Phillip Linden will retire as President of the new VR world (superceeding the UN).

The Sinclair rubber keyboard will be sold on the black market for those with an overly active libido and no confidence to join the rest of the world.

New Sims based on the Mars colonies (no pun intended) will be released, but the grid will be closed soon after due, to attack of Goo.

Your Grandchildren will go glassy eyed as you tell them stories of when you bought a PC with 2GB's ram and a 8mb connection.

I will be dead. So I won't care anyways

Dearly Darlings,

What I hope will happen:

We are pleased to announce that the scholarship fund in memory or Mrs. Showdog Tiger has now become self-sustaining. Many bright young students have been helped in the past. This insures many more will be helped in the future.

What I fear will happen:

....From the Office of Linden Labs...

Dear Mrs. Showdog Tiger:

In response to your request dated November 6, 2006 we are unable to..................

err .. excuse me .. who's forgotten the steam engine? .. just cos Wiltshire doesn't have a preserved railway ..

At the risk of going way into science fiction, I predict that eventually a number of the priviledged class will not need to do work of any kind to sustain their lives, and machines will build their 'homes' and take care of their daily needs. Due to genetic manipulation and other technologies they will have little need to interact with the real physical environment. They will live in virtual worlds, with virtual governments, and leave virtual lives almost completely.

So what about the rest of the human race? Who knows, maybe they'll be eliminated for redundancy.

Cheers
Jeff

Good point. By opening up I meant going public big time, and I think that is where SL is (almost).

VR has been around a while too, but now SL gets big publicity and lots of people dip in. I remember "touring" the vatican online in 92. I thought it was dead cool, despite the incredible "lag" but I would never have suggested paying for the internet to the average Joe. It took a while before business came along (right after the porn IIRC) and there was anything for the average person to do with the web.
If you take the trajectory from early MUDs on the VAXes I dialed up in 82 to here I think we have reached a public interest level akin to early Internet/Web. So I agree my numbers don't work exactly and VR is not at the ENIAC stage.

Like you said, it is gobsmacking how fast this computer stuff moves, and that was what I meant - I totally agree that most of the things mentioned here will come sooner rather than later. (Edit: OK I hadn't read EVERYTHING mentioned here. Whew: some active imaginations! Cool. ) 50 years from now is unimaginable to most of us!




I couldn't agree more

50 years from now...

Microsoft/Haliburton Second Life.

Everything will devolve until there are only three giant sims: the sex sim, the violence sim, and the shopping sim. At the intersection of all three will be the Drama and Profanity Infohub.

I think we will have RL=SL, hee heee... wat u think?

Giving the evolution of technology i doubt that Second Life will even Exist by that time. There will be much better things. People probably won't even recall the name until they take out a history book. It would be like that story about the first computer ever made.

Well, having kinda slated the crystal ball gazers, I finally found mine in a dusty box somewhere in inventory...polish it up...the mist is clearing...

I see a young man walking down to the beach. He looks a bit like me, but his hair sticks up in flexy spikes, each one glowing, phasing through red anad blue tones. Is it a prim or a hybrid LEP hair wrap?
He's wearing shades and a wetsuit and seems to be talking to people who aren't there (no change there then). He plants his board in the sand and sits down, arms waving gently in the air. Inside his shades he sees an image of a guy who looks a lot like him. My av hasn't aged; a small vanity in the eyes of my grandson.

Between us in the virtual space stands a three wheeled vehicle. The image is a bit blurry here, but I can see my av attaching a series of tiny cubes, some with company logos visible on their sides: "ARM", "TI" and others I can't see. My grandson is stroking the wheels, shaping them with his hands, and my daughter is texturing the side of the trike.

An hour later we test drive the new virtual vehicle, and the next day my grandson is burning up the beach in the prototype which printed from his recycling 3d printers back home. Happy with the results, we add it to our virtual showroom and soon there are a score of them on the beach, each one slightly different...

The picture dims.

I posted on here earlier and I can't remember what I said, but I've had another thought. We are assuming that RL powers-that-be around the world don't see fit to ban access to SL and other virtual communities on the grounds of them being subversive or decadent. In 50 years' time there might not be any virtual communities. There probably will be, but there might possibly not.

I they tried to ban SL I'd start a naked protest!!!!!

50 years from now? We'll have 'Better Than Life' addicts dieing in their droves. Well maybe not but whatever happens, Virtual Reality 'worlds' will have pretty much evolved beyond anything today's SciFi writers could imagine.

Keyboard spray!



I look forward to my little 512 in a skyscraper in Hong Kong.

So sl will be quaint and obsolete but people will still be using history books... something funny sounding about that to my ears.

50 years from now we will all be tied in into the internet playing SL as our real lives via virtual reality. Living in a real world will be the thing of the past!

a la Matrix? A lot of people think this.