[Foundation-l] MMORPG and Wikimedia

[Nikola Smolenski]

Дана Friday 07 May 2010 12:53:59 Milos Rancic написа:
> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org> 
wrote:
> > Milos Rancic wrote:
> >> The MMORPG Ryzom goes Free Software [1]. Although it was just a matter
> >> of time, this event is very important for shaping our future. MMORPG
> >> is virtual reality and VR worlds will be [a significant part of] our
> >> future.
> >
> > Nice to see our resident futurist making some more predictions. This
> > reminds me, we're almost halfway to May 29, 2011, the date by which
> > the Google Wave client will be the basic component of a modern
> > operating system, replacing the web browser.
>
> Unlike in prophecy, in speculative prediction "will be" means:
>
> It will be if:
> 1) Nothing cataclysmic happens.
> 2) Nothing radically different happens.
> 3) Matter of prediction goes through the most possible path of development.

OMEN, n. A sign that something will happen if nothing happens.