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Metaverse the Next Big Thing?
CrashPanic writes to tell us TCS Daily has an article entitled "The Next Big Thing" which is about Multiverse. It does a good job of making the case for the evolution to a 3D web through the lens of the past history of Netscape. From the article: "Forces are coalescing that will produce a shift comparable at least to the spread of broadband. This change will have enormous financial, cultural and political repercussions, and the most interesting aspect of the coming transformation is that it will not be some new and unexpected thing. Rather, the Web for many will become the cliched 3D virtual reality that has been so overused as a literary and cinematic devise that most of us have forgotten how compelling that vision was when it first appeared."
Imagine how much more useful your computer experience would be if you were able to design a virtual office as large or complex as you needed, and reach anything in it without leaving your chair.
My God! They have invented Microsoft Bob!
Patrick Cox should stick to making shoes.
Man, I love buzzword bingo.
I think the real problem here is that once we make the transition to a 3d virtual internet world, all those CS players will be running around shooting each other while we're at the cs_Office trying to get some damn work done. I don't want to work in a world where every 5 minutes we hear the bang of an AWP (and the subsequent "awpers r n00berz"), a constant "teams, teams, teams" and "teams are fine, teams are fine" all while getting frag and flash spammed. It just wouldn't be very productive.
disclaimer: I've been known to store numbers in my ass for which to dig out when quantities are required.
Hey! Damn youths today! Everyone knows the internet went downhill after them animated gifs! You kids with your fancy torrents and goth music and videos coming from tubes...GET OFFA MAH LAWN!