Dove Lane

Users and organizations face disappointments with today’s virtual worlds. It’s time for leaders and aspiring leaders to become knowledgeable of virtual worlds and to contribute to making them the positive and constructive platforms they will become. How? Take any one of these 11 disappointments, and start a crusade to change it! There are reputations and careers and satisfaction to be achieved by those who get involved now. This is the ground floor of a groundswell.

Right now we are in the explosive “pre-cambrian” period of virtual worlds, just as we were almost 15 years ago with the Web. Everything I am reading is pointing in one clear direction — the creation of transportable avatars. We have a long learning curve ahead of us, but what is emerging is important and will change everything, even if we just don’t yet know how!