1. What is Second Life? Best fictional analogs are Stephenson’s Metaverse from “Snow Crash” or Vinge’s Otherverse from “True Names.”

2. What happens when you give everyone powerful tools to shape their world? A Waking Dream made Real… …and Shared

3. 3D modeling

4. Breathing Life into Objects with Scripting

5. property rights In Second Life, residents own their creations What does this mean? Residents retain their Intellectual Property rights to their creations Residents may buy and sell L$ for real world $ Residents may license their creations back into the real world

6. Emotional Bandwidth :)

7. Emotional Bandwidth Use real-world social cues and proxemics Create your visual identity Animations and sounds add more depth

8. Video shared in a Community Space

9. Music shared in a Community Space

10. “Machinima” – www.bellsandspurs.com Movies created in a Community Space

11. Conferences extended into a Virtual Community Space

13. “I’m still working on my slides.” “Yeah…me too.”

14. You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet “It took 65 years after the invention of the printing press for someone to decide that putting page numbers on books was a good idea! The essay took a century to be invented; thus it is quite likely that the enduring and serious forms of the new media have not been invented. We are still mired in the imitation of the old: paper, film, and tape.” – Alan Kay Who will be the next Sergei Eisenstein?

15. Thank you www.secondlife.com John Lester (aka Pathfinder Linden) pathfinder@lindenlab.com