Loveland is the latest mad genius idea concocted by my pal Jerry Paffendorf, long known in Second Life as SnoopyBrown Zamboni, where he was a futurist for the Electric Sheep Company (among other projects.) His latest venture applies a lot of what he learned in Second Life, extending similar concepts to Detroit, one of America's most blighted cities, due to the automobile industry's collapse. His plan to help bring it back from the brink? Sell individual square inches of it for $1 each, starting with a large warehouse space he's purchasing. In doing so, each inch owner also becomes an investor with a stake in his project. That's one way the mixed reality project comes in, because this real estate will be represented virtually online. Here's one conception of how that might work, presented in this mixed reality video from clever Josh and Rita of Dancing Ink Productions:
Jerry tells me he plans to accept investments via Linden Dollars, but it's still very much in the early stages. Then again, don't you wish you put down stakes in SL when land was plenty and cheap? Plus you can become an investor with what you find between your damn couch pillows.
I've watched the video, I've read every page on the website, and I still have no idea what this idea is about.
Posted by: rikomatic | Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 09:38 PM