344 Personal Content Experience: Managing Digital Life in the Mobile Age SECOND LIFE Bob thought “Circus” was a weird name for this roundabout, which was not even a roundabout, just a complex intersection of fi ve streets. He stood there observing the strange combination of neon signs, historic buildings, and just impossible traffi c. Which was not his main topic today, of course. He was studying the area to prepare for the – you guessed it – upcoming demonstration against the multinationals. He did not like the idea of protesting in London, their AARGH.org cell’s homebase, but you do what you have to do. Those globalists must be stopped. There were fi ve tube exits. Blocking those with smell bombs would be nasty, but it would just cause a major disturbance without really hurting people. Blocking the traffi c by blowing a couple of double-decker bus tires might make some people quite angry, but again it was better than driving the bomb trucks in. There would be lots of attention with their slogans fl owing around in real and virtual spaces. In addition, they planned to take over the video displays and plant new content there, and the same with local Wi-Fi, 3G, and DVB towers. It would be a major attack, and likely to get them to jail, but could be worth it. Bob saw tourists photographing the square. Funny – a man in coveralls was shooting a photo of the Eros statue. A lot of those pictures would end up on the Net, which was good for them. Martin, the 3D modeller, was already running the stitcher software that takes those pictures and videos, correlates them in space, and creates a viewable model that could be viewed in 3D from arbitrary angles. They already had major parts of the square modelled. Now Bob would have to walk through the subway system to get video footage of the tube exits, so they could complete the model in the comfort of their own computers. Armchair activism . . . Bob turned around and saw yet another 3Lifer there in the corner. A bunch of those there today. What a weird lifestyle. All those spacer people with their silly phones in their awkwardly extended hands, peering at the world through a looking glass. And they had no idea. Their virtual worlds did not give them a clue as to what was really going on in the real world. Which was broken by the greed of those multinational supercorporations. Time do something about it.