Second Life: A World that, for Some, Allows Full Participation By Krista Stevens Highlight Second Life offers both escapism and a refuge for its hard-core digital denizens.
Beautiful Nowheres: ‘No Man’s Sky’ and the 500th Anniversary of ‘Utopia’ By Ben Huberman Commentary Five centuries after Thomas More’s classic was first published, we still dabble in perfect-world-building.
What Was Virtual Reality? By Ben Huberman Highlight The stakes of inventing and occupying fictional worlds have always been high — which explains why we were so fascinated with virtual reality already in the 1990s, when the technology was still in its pre-infancy.
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