Sweden to set up embassy in Second Life
Cool! Reality takes another well-deserved kick to the head as the Swedish Embassy becomes the first and not the last sovereign nation to open an embassy in the virtual world of Second Life.
Reuters has their News Bureau, IBM a corporate location and many other businesses such as Toyota validate the virtual universe which in the next few years will become more important to international culture and business.
First there were games, then there was porn, then finallya few brave business and social organizations adapt each new technology. But governments are usually the last to realize what’s going on, so Sweden is way ahead of the rest of the world. There’s already a couple of great pubs in “Dublin” so Ireland is represented and I know of a least one great Tibetan temple that’s worth a visit. Last week I attended a live discussion with Arriana Huffington in Second Life and met some nice folks from Holland and Ohio all without leaving the mountain on Maui.
There are hundreds of thousands of pioneers exploring now this frontier, but instead of leaky ships and slow conestoga wagons, we lurch about with our gaudy avatars marking trails where our kids will build freeways.
Sweden to set up embassy in Second LifeSweden is to become the first country to establish diplomatic representation in the virtual reality world of Second Life, officials said on Friday.
“We are planning to establish a Swedish embassy in Second Life primarily as an information portal for Sweden,” Swedish Institute (SI) director Olle Wästberg told AFP.
Related ArticlesThe embassy would not provide passports or visas but would instruct visitors how to obtain such documents in the real world and act as a link to web-based information about the Scandinavian country.
“Second Life allows us to inform people about Sweden and broaden the opportunity for contact with Sweden easily and cheaply,” Wästberg said.
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