Tagged: technology

Second Life much like the first

Second Life much like the first

Found by our Spin Queen, and because conspicuous consumers just don’t have enough guilt.:

Author Nicholas Carr (that’s his new book at right) knows a bit about evolving technology.  So he decided to answer the question about whether the massively popular mutliplayer game Second Life was ecologically sustainable by doing the math and presenting his theoretical analysis.

And what he found was, "your average Second Life avatar consumes about as much electricity as your average Brazilian. Which means, in turn, that avatars aren’t quite as intangible as they seem. They don’t have bodies, but they do leave footprints."  One of Carr’s commenters adds his findings about how this in turn affects CO2 emissions.

I’d suggest just reading a book instead, but of course that all starts with killing trees…

Future tech wishlists

Future tech wishlists

Auntie Beeb covers the story of "a wide-ranging survey produced by the South Korean government to find out what consumers will want from future technologies." The survey also features long-range predictions gleaned from interviews carried out with about 3,500 of the country’s technology experts, including online smell-o-vision within a decade, a two-month duration for mobile phone batteries before they’ll need recharging, and routine robot surgery (that’s by robots, not on them) by 2018.

Heck with all that, where’s my personal jetpack?  I’ve been waiting since 1975!

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