Google Universes

But now think for a moment in something else. What would happen if someone, like Google, would offer a very simple-to-use tool like SketUp, that enables users to generate their own virtual universes, populate them etc. Yes, there are already quite many virtual universes like Everquest. However in my view any content could be transformed into a virtual universe, specially fictional content. There are lots of people that consume and dream on escaping into those fictional universes. After all what we call entertainment tries in many ways to offer that fictional alternative to the common reality to people, Hollywood, literature, the travel industry, games... For instance the Disney corporation has been pretty good at trying to generate a fictional world populated with characters. Most of these universes of content are protected and can be manipulated or accessed only under licensed agreements or controlled access. However fans and the general public can be a huge engine for creating content, just think in fanzines, dicussion forums around new hollywood releases, or in more advanced examples the skins created by developers around games or applications.

So how do I envision this. Well in practice you need first to get organized. You need something like a Google search engine that let's you search for these universes. These universes of course are at least four dimensional. It means that you could move in the typical 3D space but also scroll in time. Then you need a 5th dimension to jump from universe to universe. If you have planet earth coordinates xyz (Though here we should apply more universal and extraterrestial coordinates) at 1st of May 2006 11.30am (GMT+2) There is only one reality taking place at that specific place and time.