Congressional hearing ... in Second Life

[MODU]

Don't they have more important things to do?

Anyway, I thought this was interesting.

"First Congress Hearing in SL"

I was offered the opportunity of attending the first congressional hearing in Second Life on 1^st^ April 2008. I teleported to a Second Life location in Rayburn, which was to be video linked to The House Committee on Energy and Commerce's Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, in Washington DC. The video link was set up by 'Machinima by Silver and Goldie' The topic was 'Online Virtual Worlds: Applications and Avatars in a User-Generated Medium'

The meeting was opened in Washington by Congressman Edward Markey, who also had his avatar chairing the meeting in the Second Life virtual room. As well as the congressmen, four witnesses were present, these were Philip Rosedale, founder and Chief Executive of Second Life, Larry Johnson, Ph.D, Chief Executive Officer at the New Media Consortium, Susan Tenby, Senior Manager, TechSoup and Colin J Parris, Ph.D, Vice President, Digital Convergence, IBM.

It is considered that 3D virtual worlds such as Second Life will become the cutting edge of the future replacing 2D internet applications. Mr Markey said that the hearing was designed primarily to be educational. Virtual worlds would become commonplace for communication, business, education, health care and cultural interests.

Second Life is already being used by town halls to hold meetings on line. Many colleges and Universities have their own 'in world' campus's for teaching purposes. Technology giant IBM use the virtual world for meetings (cutting the cost of travel expenses) and using Second Life to show their staff low cost simulations, as well as being able to familiarise them with designs at an earlier stage of production.

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[2952-0-0]

SL is a useless fad that will go the way of MySpace.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

The integration of Second Life and politics is one of the most retarded trends to pop up in recent history.  Thanks for making our political system even more retarded, liberal computer warriors.

[tik 🪀✨]

If this stupidity continues I pray someone organizes a protest in the form of griefing complete with giant flying purple phalli. And nothing says "no blood for oil" quite like a negatived picture of Kanye West on a waving flag flying through the air tied to an airplane shaped with a cockpit shaped like Hitler's face. It's the stuff dreams are made of!

[MODU]

If this stupidity continues I pray someone organizes a protest in the form of griefing complete with giant flying purple phalli. And nothing says "no blood for oil" quite like a negatived picture of Kanye West on a waving flag flying through the air tied to an airplane shaped with a cockpit shaped like Hitler's face. It's the stuff dreams are made of!

hahaha . . . will they have secret service avatars there to drag protestors out of the chamber?