The sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians… The ability to take data—to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to communicate it—that’s going to be a hugely important skill.

Hal Varian, Google’s Chief Economist, in the McKinsey Quarterly. Dataspora Blog (via smarterplanet)

It seems a combination of sametime and 2nd life.

smarterplanet:

“Sametime 3D” — a joint development effort between IBM Research and IBM Lotus extends the notion of collaboration beyond instant messaging, giving teams the ability to meet and interact in a 3D environment through a Sametime plug-in. Once in world, participants can share presentations or videos, utilize the ‘collaboration wall’ to create, discuss, modify and prioritize input for project plans, strategy development, process or requirements analysis or other collaborative activities, and export the results for further analysis

Sametime 3D video presented at the 3DTLC event April 20-21 in Washington, DC. (via jgluckibm)