An interesting 20 minute interview with Philip during last month’s Picnic 08 conference in Amsterdam. Covers the basics like ‘What is SL’,  ‘How are people using SL’, ‘What are some of the problems’ – plus deeper topics such as ‘ Is SL detrimental to your Real Life?’.

“The question is whether you’re being challenged and learning in a way that is less than or greater than the Real World experience that you would otherwise be having. I think that virtual worlds, like Second Life, have the potential to provide a more challenging intellectual environment than, in many cases, the Real World around you. And so time spent in the Virtual World, I suspect, will come to be almost an educational requirement rather than something that is viewed as potentially a problem for you.”

secondlife: better than the real world? – philip rosedale @ picnic from Tiburon-TV – Viktoria Trosien on Vimeo.