Wagner James Au's Favorite Ten Posts for 2013: On Virtual Reality, Second Life, China, Bitcoin, and Beyond

As we wind down the year, I wanted to share my personal favorite pieces of writing from 2013, most for New World Notes, some for GigaOM and Internet Evolution:

• Second Life turns 10: what it did wrong, and why it may have its own second life (for GigaOM)
• How to Understand Technology Trends -- Ignore Personal Preference, Focus on Sales & Usage Data
• Woman with Parkinson's Reports Significant Physical Recovery After Using Second Life - Academics Researching
• BioShock Infinite's Racist Arcade Games Based on Real Games from America's Dark Past That Echo in Its Present
• Architect Using Oculus Rift as Real World Tool Reports Dramatic Improvements to Design Visualization

Five more below:

• Remembering Helen Thomas, Who Challenged 9 Presidents About Their Policies... and Philip Rosedale About Second Life
• For Bitcoin to Work as Money, Expert Researcher Suggests, Its Supporters Must Build the Social Infrastructure That Makes Money Money
• 4 Tech Tips for Geeks Going to China (Which Say a Lot About China) (For Internet Evolution)
• Jeri Ellsworth on CastAR, Her Kickstarter-Funded Augmented/Virtual Reality System 1st Developed at Valve
• Bitcoin Euphoria Is Eerily Like Second Life Hype (& I Should Know) (For Internet Evolution)

Happy New Year's -- see you in 2014.

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[Danielle]

2014 will be the year Wall Street gets into bitcoin:

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/12/31/fortress-is-forming-a-bitcoin-fund/

http://www.amongtech.com/new-york-city-gets-worlds-first-bitcoin-center/

Note that 40 Broad St, where the center is, is 100 feet from the New York Stock Exchange