Wednesday 10 January 2007

Interview with Philip Rosedale - SL CEO

BBC NEWS Programmes Newsnight Home: " Second Life
Paul Mason interviews the creator of the virtual world "

Just spotted Newsnight - Part of Newsnight's Geek Week 2.0: a review of virtual worlds and their impact on society. As a follow-up to the item on TV, the BBC web site carries an interview with Philip Rosedale, ceo of Linden Labs. (audio stream). The site also carries a downloadable video podcast of the programme.

http://bbc.co.uk/newsnight

From the SL interview......

Rosedale sees SL as not being "addictive" but being more challenging and more rewarding that RL. It is where colaboration happens, where creativity happens - where things get built first.

How will virtual reality change the Real World?

Rosedale sees current cities as becoming "Museums" - places that are fascinating, and places to explore, whilst we do our work and information gathering in the virtual world.

A text version of the two items can be found here and part 2 here

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