Comments on: Cisco CEO John Chambers on future of virtual worlds

By: eightbar » Blog Archive » Christian Renaud leaving Cisco - to go to ?????

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:53:40 +0000

[...] so we look forward to seeing what that is, and everyone at eightbar wishes him good luck. As the CEO of Cisco really gets the whole metaverse drive we know that it does not mean the end of Cisco’s drive into this. So its still IBM and Cisco [...]

By: epredator

epredator — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:48:26 +0000

I agree there is a generational element to this. Though it is also intriguing that in corporate environments it is the older more experience people who are driving the change, having seen the internet get ignored in some organizations until it was too late. So we have as Chris from Sun said "Gamers raising gamers" which has a push. We have a similar game at powerupthegame.com to teach science and eco effects, and we have things like the green data center in SL to educate everyone. Studying the social effects and generational elements is certainly being done in all sorts of ways.

By: Jori Clarke

Jori Clarke — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:49:43 +0000

As a point in fact about rapid change happening, it is interesting to look at the experiences of the next generation with virtual worlds. Eco-friendly tween world http://www.kidscom.com has kids learning about global climate change as they socialize and play similar to how they do in the school yard and their real world neighborhoods. No one has to tell this generation that this is the future. Currently they will be influential in helping parents figure out how to use this technology as well as sooner than we like to think, they will be the decision makers for consumption, governance and communication practices on a global level! Anyone studying this generation to talk about usage behaviors and technology best practices?