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Can History Survive The Internet? (News, Observer)
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Written by Clark Columbia
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Thursday, 31 May 2007 |
 Tim Guest's Second Lives is a passport to the burgeoning virtual world where 30 million of us now live, says Toby Lichtig.
The futurist in me says that the real world will become like a museum very soon.' These are the words of Philip Rosedale, chief executive of Linden Lab, the company behind Second Life. Like many of its competitors in the paraverse of virtual gaming, Second Life is mushrooming exponentially. In his book, Tim Guest provides some statistics. There are, he writes, 30 million regular virtual gamers across the world; a report this month put the population of Second Life alone at 6 million, and it is growing at a rate of 800,000 members per month. IBM's Irving Berger likens the current status of virtual gaming to the presence of the internet in 1994: we are merely on the cusp.
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