Second life has actually been growing some during covid. Linden lab also has a part of its business which is called tilia. And that business is designed to enable virtual worlds games, anybody to create digital currencies inside their worlds, legally. So it is possible, and we think likely, that second life is going to continue to grow a lot because of business.
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Philip Rosedale, founder of Second Life, to talk about why he has returned as an advisor and investing the virtual world years after having left (4:30), how many people are on Second Life today (10:05), the $650m Second Life economy (12:05), digital goods millionaires (14:20), the dangers of an ad-driven model (16:40), how you govern a metaverse with 1 billion people (24:40), moderating (28:30), the future of the metaverse (36:00), whether Mark Zuckerberg can pull it off (40:40), and the concept of race in virtual worlds (43:30).
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