Death of Second Life? Nope

Accenture Scientist Predicts Death of Second Life. Actually, you read the report and he doesn't:

"'The virtual worlds hold out the promise of everything from lower infrastructure costs to new revenue streams,' said Swaminathan. 'But Accenture Labs foresees an imminent drop in interest as businesses hit the limits of closed virtual worlds. Much as circumscribed networks such as CompuServe gave way to the open IP world of the Internet, 'SL' and others will evolve toward much more capable open virtual worlds.'"

Yes, that's right: Swaminathan is, in fact, predicting that Second Life will evolve into an open platform, rather like Linden Lab's own roadmap. Doesn't make as good a headline, though!