From: Adam D Beeman Subject: Re: VR Worlds better than Reality Date: 2 Aug 91 14:04:17 GMT Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz; Open Access Computing In article <1991Jul30.221659.26519@milton.u.washington.edu> devans@apple.com (Dave Evans) writes: > I read an interesting Sci Fi series of books, but I can't remember >who wrote them. The major conclusion of the trilogy was that >electronic lives were better than physical, because they could >be perfect. You could control your environment, entirely, including >your self image and capabilities. [stuff deleted] > Some people think this is dangerous. Kind of like "couch potato's from >Hell" or something, and worry VR will make people into computer zombies, >never leaving their VR machine. But is that so bad? > > How about some feedback... > - Dave Not zombies... wizards! It's happening to people already! I've found myself realizing that I've been in a computer lab for 14 hours, or playing mud all night! So what's wrong with spending your time somewhere that doesn't physically exist? I have a life! Really! It's just on a disk somewhere... By the way, I'm rather curious if many VR people are LPmud people... there are many similarities even though LPmud is text based. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ || Adam Beeman, undergraduate The bubbles fill the space || || designer of alternate realities. o O || || Another twisted philosophical type. o o o || || beeman@cats.ucsc.edu o 0 || || beeman@ucscb.ucsc.edu (408) 464-2375 O O || /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ || Disclaimer: The views represent views, nothing more. So what? || /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/