[LINK] Digital Culture Talk on Second Life, 14 February 2007, Canberra

[Adam Todd]

At 01:39 PM 11/01/2007, Howard Lowndes wrote:
>>Will we all soon be attached to computers more so than we are today, 
>>earning a living in Linden Dollars by pressing buttons on computers and 
>>making Avtars do the work?
>
>...well you can already make them have sex... :)

Yes but no one does that in the real world any more anyway.  Adult "meeting 
sites" are for people to express their fantasies and desires, but rarely do 
meetings and "sex" take place.

>>Where will our sustenance come from?  Perhaps the process of having an IV 
>>line attached to your arm and a bottle at the front door of your ever 
>>reducing in size home (who needs a yard and space when you can close your 
>>eyes and think it!) where it will be filled with processed protein and 
>>glucose fluids pumped to you the way water is today?
>
>probably something like the dotcom effect - all input with no prospect of 
>output.

Sounds like the Australian Federal Government and the New South Wales State 
Government.