Second Life in 2010

Which has been proven to be incorrect, as they raised "the big piece" and did some metalurgy on it. It was found to be a quality of steel, that was consistant with the best available at the time.

Which has been proven to be incorrect. Scientists performed tests on recovered pieces of the Titanic and proved that, although Celine Dion can in fact cause ice bergs to form and weaken steel with her singing, if it had been her singing the oceans would have boiled dry and covered the Earth in an layer of clouds which would have let no sunlight touch the ground for the next thousand years. Scientists can only assume that Celine Dion has not yet been born at the time of the Titanic's sinking.

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cool lol that actually reminds me of the welcome area in ActiveWorlds though. XD

Anyone guess the linden name? hehehe

I'm scared to answer that one because i might get shot at by them if I'm wrong.

Scary thought

2010 is only 3 years and although SL has changed visually and in scope since 2003, some 4 years ago I do not anticipate it being hugely different in 2010 assuming it survives till then but I bet you some of the following (some rather bleak) scenarios are worth considering possible:

1. Land tier including Mainland tier will be a lot more expensive and will be more than double the present cost for every level.

2. Land trading will still be the main sole serious income earning profession within SL as well as major content developing for themed projects and sponsored ventures sublet by the Lindens to their preferred groups or advertised by tender (and won by same groups)

3. LL will be a lot richer as will their 'favoured' players, mega land owners and partners

4. The Teen Grid will fail to pull a sufficient audience and revenue and be discontinued and griefing on the Main Grid will increase as a result. The Lindens will not abandon free accounts because of the need to show huge population usage but age verification will become compulsory for premium accounts.

5. The priority will still be commerce, commerce and more commerce to raise the share value of the eventual sold off enterprise. The bugs will still be there and much vaunted improvements still pending.

6. You will see many more 1st World companies owning islands, lands and builds and selling services via the LL interface. SL Malls and High Streets will start to look like 1st World equivalents with all the brand names from 1st Life and more real life goods will sell via the world. There will also be many more events and promotions which occur in both 1st and 2nd worlds at the same time and live TV coverage from SL will be more commonplace than it is now.

7. Millionaire players will unite to mutual advantage. Anshe Chung will be a Linden Board Director and will bring in huge Chinese sponsorship revenue for private developments. Closed versions of SL and SL sims produced for China and other countries will be censored in line with Govt requirements with which SL will co-operate as did Google despite opposition from libertarian pressure. There will be a joint venture between Entropia Universe and Second Life in which ultra rich players will collaborate and make huge profits. This will involve many ideas including a sharing of currency exchanges, player privatised land sales becoming a commercial issue in EU (Anshe Chung will enter EU land trading) and a re-working of the 'nightclub scene in EU and SL which will involve The Edge, Anshe Chung and John Neverdie the richest player in EU. I can also foresee a new emergent super group of virtual game entrepreneurs tendering for in game projects across a number of virtual worlds using their monoploies and controls and wealth to provide content and services for such worlds.

8. Avatar nudity in SL will be banned in any non domestic place, as will any form of non typical sexual expression and non conventional morality and expression of it, many minority interests and fetish desires and activities will either be banned or almost eradicated by restricting group purposes (reason = appeasing sponsors and fear of litigation affecting profits). Sexual activities in game will be restricted to private dwellings on verified age player owned land, with a duty to restrict access lists to age verified players only. Some players themselves will encourage and join in with this 'persecution madness' outing anyone they don't like for supposed breaches or being 'the type who might' (as we have seen recently) until one day everyone wakes up and thinks 'how we get here, how did that happen?'

9. LL will be a significantly more well known 'household name' across the western world, and be up for sale or even sold to a major player and the 'disneyfication' will begin in earnest.

10. The Brave New World will have become mostly a BIg New Shop


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Important Basic Feature Improvements including improving outdated 4 year old AV Body Appearance system to Poser standard, Havok Game Engine Updates, not just commercial gimmicks. Over prioritisation of island owners.. what about those of us who own much or most of mainland sims !!

and well always get this get this kind of reply From Linden Labs............

Your forgot to say that how many will leave based on the lack of support and or over playing how much they can either make or have their products exposed to....

Vehicular report upon returning a police car (this was real):
"The alternater don't alternate, the generator don't generate, and the pistons don't work either."