The following is a video from Philip Rosedale of Second Life speaking at TED. From a search engine and information retrieval perspective the video get interesting at about minute 9:00 . He poses the thought that things are going to change that the text web will eventually be replaced by imagery and symbology in virtual worlds. Also interesting is his example of how the web is devoid of social interaction in shopping and e-commerce environments.
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Philip is giving a rather blurred picture here. Yes, symbol of chair sticks to the memory and is not dependent on the language, but word chair is searchable and can be combined with other words to give more information. That is why we use language. No matter how symbols are strong, words are very powerful tool. Those two worlds are complementary. Same kind of complementarity goes to 3D worlds and web. In all the hype we tend to exaggerate virtual worlds and think that they will come as the next web. They won’t. They will give more to the web, sense of presence (our and other peoples), they will give the possibility of direct communication and shared experience, but they won’t be a replacement.
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