Sounds like one of those "And then I made a billion dollars" ideas, sorta like google but with pics, and everyone loves pics. Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
i think the idea of second life has merit, especially for bed ridden, aged, etc, and as an opportunity for young idealists to try out different identities.
as an opportunity to meet and mingle at a virtual market...sounds like fun, a kind of ebay but with fantasy.
i too predict this is a winning idea...
not the corporate topdown version of an interesting parallel dimension. The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. Chinese Proverb.
What I mean is, you go to google when you want to go someplace else. If there was your cybernetic avatar, and it could go anyplace, and you could buy your stereo as that avatar, as long as you had the cash, then this newly-invented world would be like google, the place you went when you wanted to make deals with people you'd never met before.
We're old school, we have that face thing, but so do the kids. The difference is, they know who's getting it and who isn't, and that makes it harder for them with their relationships with their parents, as it has always been, but as kids like images and text, a funky avatar could be a great way to mix and mingle with kids around the world, hints here and there, a sorta ET meet and mingle tone, where those who wanna do, and those who might do may well do, everything open. So what I meant by google is that the google company (whoever they may be) seem to make lossa folding asset by not hassling me and giving me something very similar to what I asked for, and often giving me the thing I asked for directly, without ever asking me for money. Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
still don't see how you could make it anonymouse and commercial tho..
your avatar has paypal? The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. Chinese Proverb.
