I have been to SL, like many other people, I imagine, to “have a look”, and try to understand. After several hours, I was more or less asking myself the same questions.

How can we invest so much time and money in something which is not only “only” a second life, but definitively a poorer one ? As long as computers cannot generate feelings and sensations, smells and tastes, SL will definitively be poorer.

I leave between two worlds, let’s say I already have two FL one which is the highly technical where I surf, blog, and even spend some time in SL. The other one is Morocco, and I’m regularly with the nomads, people who don’t even know what electricity is, and haven’t the faintest idea of a computer.

I’m not joking… once we met a family with a kid around 4, and he was scared like hell, because that was the first time he was climbing in a car (ok he get used to it quite quickly, but that’s just to show the technological gap).

I already ask myself how do I account for my second FL in my first one

Morocco is on second life (actually that’s what brought me there at the beginning), or just a very small part of it, quite iconic btw. But there will never ever be a nomad there :).

The power we have to make a world look like we would dream it, without old people, diseases, poverty, constraints, is a very inreresting and questionning experience.