[Foundation-l] MMORPG and Wikimedia

[William Pietri]

On 05/06/2010 11:03 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> On 6 May 2010 19:00, Milos Rancic<millosh at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> The point is that this is an engine for virtual reality, while it is
>> MMORPG, too. And unlike Second Life, the platform is free software
>> which anyone would be able to install. Integrating Wikimedia projects
>> into this framework should be priority as in five to ten years, this
>> will be the most dominant form of using Internet.
>>      
> No, it won't. People have been saying that for years and the fact
> remains that a screen full of a text with a few relevant images is a
> much better way to convey information than VR.
>    

If people will forgive me for promoting a personal project, this is 
exactly the kind of thoughtful disagreement about the future we want to 
put on record at the non-profit site Long Bets:

http://www.longbets.org/

Disagreements like this are turned into registered predictions, and then 
hopefully into bets. The wagered money ends up going to the winning 
bettor's designated charity, so both the Wikimedia Foundation and the 
Free Software Foundation could be eligible recipients.

If you folks are interested that, contact me off list and I'm glad to 
put you in touch with the right people at the Long Now Foundation.

William