Links for 10-05-2007
Posthumans won’t dog space travel, Nasdaq ponders SL stock exchange, wallaby milk to kill super-bugs…
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1 - Space Travel: Not for A Billion Years
“Mind uploading will make space travel useless. If my mind is running at a million times human speed, then the Moon, Mars, and Proxima Centauri look far more distant than they were previously. It becomes pointless to visit them.”
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2 - Anti-superbug weapon developed from wallaby milk
Good candidate for headline of the month.
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3 - Amazon Web Services Opens Second Life Site
“The Amazon islands aren’t quite done yet, Jeff says, but from what I could glean in my visit, they seem to have succeeded in being “very SL-friendly, not overly corporate,” as Jeff says they were intended.”
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4 - Nasdaq boss ponders Second Life stock exchange
Nasdaq CEO [says] he could imagine opening up a stock exchange in Second Life. “We have actually contemplated it … The first life is hard enough, but we’re fans of it and we pay attention to it and we have thought about it.”
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5 - IBM Rolls Its Own Virtual World
“The company is using Garage Games’ Torque Game Engine, a low-cost game platform supporting dozens of simultaneous users (about as many as a single Second Life area).”
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