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Second life
Second Life, the vitual world developed by Linden Labs is becoming the talk of the office (well, 3 of us anyway) at the moment. For the unitiated, Second Life allows you to create a virtual representation of yourself, own virtual land and unlike most virtual environments, make real money. People are property speculating, marketing & desgining, in fact almost any walk of life you can think of has been re-created in virtual form. Major corporations are buying up virtual plots of land and a Japanese MP has even opened an office in the cyber landscape. Unmoved by the technical wizzadry that makes all this possible, our thoughts have turned to just one thing: how can we make money from this?
Despite the fact that none of us have managed to make any money in the real world, have no business experience and all the clever “techy” bit will doubtless fall to one person there is a constant thought process of, “what could we do?”. Whilst I’m sure the final answer to the question will be nothing, that may be beside the point.
The dreams and hopes of doing this can take you away from the mundane work-a-day life. It’s not unlike the times where you mentally spend your lottery winnings. I’m thinking to myself I could start this business or that business, build this or that, sell something or other, all of which is - for me at least - unattainable in the real world.
When we were younger we had dreams and aspirations, and as we got older we slowly put barriers in the way of us acheiving those dreams. I didn’t grow up wanting to do my current job, I wanted to be an astronaut or a pilot but as the years go on too many of us create obstacles to those aims. By going through the process of what business opportunities there are in Second Life I find myself returning to that child like state of no barriers and obstacles. If that can transfer into my own “first life” then surely that will lead to a better life for me.