The Metaverse finally coming of age?

CrashPanic writes: "Raph Koster, the "man" in the MMO space, former "Chief Entertainment Officer" for Sony Online in charge of Everquest, Star Wars Galaxies, etc., and the lead designer for Ultima Online, writes in his blog about a TCS article entitled "The Next Big Thing" which is about Multiverse (for a change, not Second Life!). It does a good job of making the case for the evolution to a 3D web (something that I am still skeptical is coming anytime too soon) through the lens of the past history of Netscape."