![]() ![]() 'I bought a magic sword, only it's not enchanted correctly.'" It took a while for the perplexed officer to understand what was going on, but it was indeed logged as a crime: fraud. ![]() 'I want to report a crime,' he says to the desk sergeant. "Man walks into a police station in South London early last year. One of the panelists had an anecdote from a police station blotter. Then in 2004 I was in the audience at a panel at an SF convention discussing crime and the internet. But, here in the real world, the progress of VR into everyday life has been slow and tenuous. Well-read ones.) VR seems to exemplify the modern SF paradigm of information space in much the way that the idea of interplanetary exploration exemplified the old paradigm of real space. (Yes, I have first edition copies of both books. I've been really interested in Virtual Reality as a key indicator that we're living in the future ever since William Gibson published Neuromancer back in 1984, and especially since Neal Stephenson published Snow Crash in 1992, and rang the curtain down on cyberpunk in the process. ![]()
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