Found on BoingBoing:
SECOND LIFE: A story too good to check – Valleywag:
Like video phones, which have been just one technological revolution away from mass adoption since 1964, virtual reality is so appealingly simple that its persistent failure to be a good idea, as measured by user adoption, has done little to dampen enthusiasm for the coming day of Keanu Reeves interfaces and Snow Crash interactions.
I’ve been trying to put my finger on why Second Life bugs me, and I think I can summarize it very sarcastically: Vermil? That’s soooo 1996!