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[nate at portents.com]

> And along the lines of a prior discussion - what happens when Linden
> starts charging property taxes?  WHAT THEN?

Philip Rosedale is convinced he is creating a future world for people that
is going to be bigger than the internet, and I think he wants to try to
get everyone there first, and then probably come up with new ways to make
money:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/01/second_life_to_dwarf_web_in_ten_years/

"Speaking at the Stanford Summit, an annual tech industry conference, the
Linden Lab CEO predicted that a completely-open virtual world architecture
 much like the one hes touting for Second Life - would result in an
online alternate universe several times larger than todays internet. 'In
ten years, virtual access will be more prevalent than web access,' he
said, evangelizing alongside several other virtual world mavens, including
the godfather of alternate reality, Berkeley scholar-in-residence Jaron
Lanier."

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/14306294/second_life_the_nets_virtual_paradise_heats_up/print

"I remember just turning to my buddy, and saying, 'It's all in there!,' "
he recalls. " 'This is like outer space!' " "God is in the machine," as he
now likes to say. "The Code is law. The Code is God."

...

"One night in 1999, he and some buddies from Real went to see the Matrix.
After the flick, the guys hit up a bar, tossing back drinks as they
effused over the film's vivid depiction of a virtual reality. Everyone,
that was, except for Rosedale, who sat at the table sulking about the
film's dystopian view. When one of the guys asked him why was being such a
buzzkill, Rosedale grabbed him by the shoulders like a mad scientist and
barked, "I'm going to build that! And it's not going to turn out that
way!"

...

"Around the office, they don leather necklaces with pendants of the Second
Life logo -- the ancient eye-in-palm talisman called The Hand of God. 'All
seeing, all knowing,' Rosedale says."