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Talks/proposed/no-second-life-chances.md

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No second (life) chances

Speaker : Nick Merrill ffff@berkeley.edu

time: 30 minutes - 1 hour depending on needs/wants Over the course of it's beta, from 2003 to 2007, Second Life transformed in vision from a peer-to-peer market society with no hierarchies and no scarcity, to a hypercapitalist society, driven by corporate verticals and labor exploitation. How did this happen? The aim of this talk is to surface patterns in communities, cultures, and socio-technical systems that make labor ownership difficult to build and enforce. Ultimately, we look toward the question: How can we prevent the present generation of idealistic developers, bent on subverting traditional mechanisms of application and data control, from falling into the same trap as Second Life?

need travel fee : would be neded, yes, i am a student need room : yes Location : oakland, ca, usa

NOTE: this talk would be accepted but there currently is no funding for the required travel.