Announcement: This Saturday at The Science Circle - "The World 20 Years Ahead with 2020 Vision"

"The World 20 Years Ahead with 2020 Vision"

Saturday May 2

10 AM to 11 AM SL time

"Our current times are bad. But where are we headed? Some of the world’s smartest people in government, research, academia, business, economics, science, and other fields have looked 20 years into the future, and seen a time of abundance and shared opportunities. Let’s visit evolving technologies from an optimistic perspective above and beyond the turmoil of 2020. "

By Dr. Steven R. Van Hook

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Tarot Reading by Grease Coakes

Most everyone wants to know what the future holds in store for them. For Deaflegacy, she pondered over a couple issues. Someone whom offered a few predictions was friend of the Newser Grease Coakes, whom has been doing some tarot card readings. She decided to see what the cards had in store for her.

Read Deaflegacy's article in Extra.

Grease Coakes' Tarot Card Readings

"What does fortune hold for me?" An old question people have asked fortune tellers for ages. One method of this is through tarot cards. Grease Coakes has recently taken up this old art that Second Life has given a modern twist, tarot card readings given through the virtual world. So how does he does it? Grease offered me a free reading to show me.

Read the story in Extra.

Becky's Futurecast

What lies ahead? A question we all ask ourselves. In real life news, scientists began going along with a theory Becky had done so a long time ago. She had a few other predictions of what lies ahead, though trying to guess what the Lindens will do is beyond her talents. This will be Becky's last story for a while as she is going on a break that will last until at least the end of the year.

Read Becky's story in Extra.

Creative Fiction: The Morph Machine

Becky "Sha" Shamen was inspired to write something that could be described as part creative science-fiction, and partially a prediction of what technology might offer in the future. In real life, we are learning more about DNA and how to manipulate it. Surgery is also getting less invasive (sometimes), and with doctors able to alter someone's appearance to greater degrees. With this in mind, what if in a time not so far away people don't have to go to virtual reality to have a different body, but with the help of available technology can become real-life versions of nonhuman Second Life avatars?

Read Becky's story in Extra.

A Tarot Reader in Second Life

Most everyone wants to know what the future holds in store for them. For Grease Coakes, he wondered what does the future hold for his fiction writing. Someone whom offered a few predictions was his friend Amehana Ishtari, a tarrot card reader. So how did the reading go?

Read Grease's article in Extra.