Yet Another Scientist Who Isn't Well-Read...

Professor Susan Greenfield claims that Facebook is turning our kids' skulls into mush and making our kids egocentric (!) Nevermind their parents...

Obviously, she also has not read Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter!

The Problem with Pointing out Problems About the Metaverse

Yet another article pointing out how impractical it is to, say, order a pizza via Second Life. What makes it worse is that Skribe goes through a mini-history of pushing the tech. envelope for such mundane tasks...but not far enough to evoke how difficult doing this (now a routine thing) was when the Internet was in its nascent stage. The Metaverse will evolve, these complaints (which sound a lot like those of 20 years ago) will be addressed, and the Metaverse will emerge as the new Internet platform. I can't judge intent. If the intent was "wishlist/bug fix" in nature, then this is fine. But if, as I suspect, this is a whine that states the obvious, then I just lost 5 minutes I'll never get back... ;-)