Philip Rosedale Community Round Table, Nov 2024, with videos + Audio – Inara Pey: Living in a Modemworld

Closing Comments: Is back at the Lab full time in the CTO role. Part of his focus is figuring out how to better communicate with everyone. Specifically as CTO is looking at what, how and why technologies changes should be made, and more broadly focused on strategy and product. Notes that of late, the comments from outside of SL have not been so much phrased in the past tense and in terms of acknowledging it is still going and available, and that this could be beneficial as LL starts marketing SL more. Expresses confidence that SL will start growing again, and reiterates that user can help in this. Does feel that in a time when technology and the Internet have done much to endanger democratic expression and the polarising of views, Second Life demonstrates there is a much more positive way for people to connect using technology, and how it can have a depolarising effect, allowing people who might not otherwise, become friends. In this, sees the opportunity to promote virtual worlds as beneficial environments for people to use, and which can be respected as such, and can help us face some of the broader challenges we face as a human society.