11. Virtual Economies: 3D Worlds “ Rivers Run Red and Linden Lab predicted that the user-to-user economy for Second Life in 2009 would be $450 million..” – RiversRunRed With the iterative improvement in chip microarchitecture such as Intel’ s Nehalem (which will replace the present Intel “Core” microarchitecture) and the onset of 50Mg+ broadband download speeds, virtual 3D world activity will become mass.