>Does this mean that we're headed for a VR universe of people who
>really don't get along with their neighbors in real life, and seek VR
>as their primary means of escape?
If I'm not mistaken, this is already partly the case in most western urban
civilazations. Most people don't seek the company of their neighbours, but
instead have a network of friends spread out geographically. As in
cyberspace, interests, work, etc. are the basis of friendships and
aquaintances, not how close you live.
Car and telephone kills the community? People don't care to assert themself
to get along with their neighbours because it's just as easy to maintain a
circle of friends living elsewhere?
[this is getting out of the list's scope, don't you think?]
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Torbjoern Caspersen casper@due.unit.no
http://www.stud.unit.no/~casper/
Student of Architecture
at the Norwegian faculty of technology, NTH, Trondheim.