Eloise Pasteur has a post well worth reading over at Massively.
insightful as Eloise's observations are, i think there's an even more significant point to be made.
if we accept (for the moment, at least) that the Web is the New Operating System,
and that Second Life is the New Web,
then...
the earth-shattering point of today's announcement could well be that
Second Life is (on its way to becoming) the New Operating System
:-)
[update 1: Robert Scoble's 27 March 2006 post (Second Life +is+ an OS) Scobleizer]
[update 2: Erica Naone's 15 July 2008 article (The Virtual World as Web Browser) Technology Review, published by the MIT]
[update 3: Jeanricard Broek's 26 August 2009 post (The Birth of a New Web 3.0 Browser?) Architecture +]
[update 4: 22 February 2010 post (Larry Rosenthal on the Transition from 2D to 3D Interfaces) Pixels and Policy
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