Nu Vibez and Roleplay Guide Magazine - August 2014 | Page 90

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ownership and why great places are
great places. And so they said, “Let's just
make this a real world. Let's let it have a
real economy and let's make property
have real value. There was a lot of buzz
around that. The investors could see this
thing star ng to go.
At the me Linden Lab built something
called the Love Machine. The Love
Machine allowed
anyone who
worked as a Linden
employee to send
anyone else a brief
note that says
"Thank you for
doing this for me."
There was a
webpage where
you could go to
send an e-mail, and
then you got a li le
e-mail that said
"Love From Philip"
in the subject and
had text in it. You
may think, what's the big deal about
that? Well, all of that info went into a
database. Everybody was sending love
to each other. It created a posi ve
collabora ve environment at LL.

imagine New York City being like a
museum. S ll an incredibly cool place to
go, but with no one working in those
towers because work, crea ve work,
where you are engaging with other
people face-to-face, will now be done in a
virtual world. The idea was to leave ci es
like San Francisco and move into digital
worlds. They believed it would easier to
do things there, in those digital worlds.

it ought to be a
creative space
where people
can be
entrepreneurial
if they want to.

By 2007 Philip and Linden Lab were of
the opinion that an enormous amount of
intellectual energy would go to moving
into this world, and some of what we
were doing in the real world would
therefore be displaced.
If you can
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Fast forward to
2014. Change being
the only constant in
life means that much
has changed in the
wonderful world of
Second Life.

Philip Rosedale said,
we as the residents
of SL could make
money, and yes a
handful of residents
have made money,
Anshe Chung and
Stroker Serpen ne
among them; Frolic Mills built a pseudo
SL empire and has sold it, presumably at a
profit. But nothing lasts forever.

Philip Rosedale is no longer running LL
but has moved on and one of the projects
he is now involved with is called High
Fidelity. Their web page states “If it
doesn't hurt to think about it, we're not
going to try it.” The idea behind High
Fidelity is “We're building a new virtual