Blogging from the road
Now that our fearless blog admin has enabled mobile blogging I can knock out posts while travelling via iPhone. Fantastic. Limitless. Relentlessness. Below: mommy and Kaleo connect via SL (close supervision, PG sim of course)
But I don’t want to keep praising our admin, but rather wanted to address in this post the regrettable fact, that SL is a 18 and over platform. As you can see from the above picture, my wife and I let our 5- year old log on in a strictly supervised and times setting. He gets tremendously excited about SL and so do we. The educational and communicative possibilities for young children are simply endless. If it is a alternative Columbus Day Parade put on by a native American group, the center for water studies with it’s realistic underwater Eco system, the Tech museum in San Jose, which replicated it’s exhibits in SL or if it is simply driving around with his grandfather (who lives 15000 miles away) in a virtual VW bus along Venice Beach. Just like for adults the immersive nature is invigorating and engaging. For children, who grasp the space without any inhibitions, it is literally a dive into endless knowledge. I feel Linden Lab, above all else ( adding new features or pleasing enterprise and marketing folk) has to figure out a way to restrict access to adult material so youngsters are not excluded from swimming in the pool of wisdom. In “Login2Life” we will surely include the great efforts happening on the Teen Grid by the likes of Global Kids for instance. But in the longrun SL has to open up: not only code-wise, but age-wise!
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