Philip Rosedale on virtual drugs

The Hollywood Reporter runs a relatively standard-issue Second Life trend piece, with a slightly novel presentation of entertainment and advertising companies' reactions for/against. Dennis Miller of Spark Capital does get a good quote, describing the current scene quite cogently as one of "maximum paranoia and minimum clarity." However, much better is Linden Labs' Philip Rosedale in a related interview, holding forth in something akin to dorm-room stoner talk.

Second Life is really much closer to how we're talking right now, but where we're both on truth serum basically. It's like Burning Man, it's like taking a drug. Both of us are here, but we're much more comfortable with each other. ... Second Life is a mirror of the real world, only in many ways better. It's more global, it's faster, has a faster growing economy, it's a lot easier to do a lot of things — and you could fly.

Oh baby, you're so sexy when you let go, you know? One could grant that SL is perhaps faster and has a faster-growing economy than the real world. But how is it more "global" than, say, the actual globe?

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