From: George McKee Subject: SOC: Ultimate VRML network in 30 years? Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 12:12:25 -0600 (CST) Internet VR is advancing fast, but it's still a long way from the visions of science fiction. Meanwhile, there are still billions of people living in poverty or stavation in Rwanda, Bangladesh, Mexico City, and thousands of other third-world places. Will what we do with VR here have any effect on their lives there? How, and how soon? A preliminary approach to this question has been published in the online International Journal of Futures Studies with the title "The impact of Internet virtual reality on global carrying capacity". You can find it at http://www.systems.org/HTML/fsj-v01/gm-vrml.htm While it's not a hyper-article itself, it's heavily hyperlinked to other sources on the Web. I hope you find it interesting. - George McKee -- Internet: mckee@neosoft.com Voice: +1 713 890 8122 Disclaimer: neosoft is just an access provider. Evolution: Selective replication from a population with heritable variation. Evolution of Complexity: Like with size, there's always room at the top, if the infrastructure can handle the load.