Overview
Cursory Outline: As we move more and more of our devices, memories, images, toys and histories online what becomes of this content? Where is it stored? On servers with companies like Flickr? On private servers far away? How do these external storage devices not end up being the same as basements filled with boxes? What about cataloging long term? Finding things? Retrieving them? Safety and security long term? Second life offers people a way to create spaces and houses that are more long term than their physical counterparts (well theoretically) particularly if you are someone who has "lost" things in the real world you will be concerned about losing things and loss in general so digital storage can be a kind of security blanket, a private hidey-hole for all of your things. Or if you are a packrat you can collect infinitely not constrained by physical limitations. But how do we then get through all of this stuff? Memory Palaces. Use the simulating capabilities to store "things" (data/histories/devices/ANYTHING) in your digital home. The architecting of this would be similar to the Little Cities Project that I did with RED76 insofar as you can construct your dream home and then place it anywhere you want.
