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From: craig@com2serv.C2S.MN.ORG (Craig S. Wilson)
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Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION:  SCI.VIRTUAL-WORLDS
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Date: 1 Dec 89 15:17:46 GMT
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In article <470@scorn.sco.COM> davidbe@sco.COM (The Cat in the Hat) writes:
>I don't like the "cyberspace" label because of what it implies.  And that's
>science fiction with little to no basis in reality.  

Are you stating that science fiction has no basis in reality?  Or just
science fiction that fits the "cyberpunk" label?   Without discussing

>Cyberspace is 
>so intertwined with Gibson and Gibson-esqe writing that it implies something
>incompletely different from what the virtual worlds group would be about.
>

Gibson popularized the name, but that doesn't stop someone else from
changing the definition of the name.  It wouldn't be the first time
that has happened.

I think the confusion between "cyberspace" and "cyberpunk" is a
problem.  But cyberspace, to me, is a more encompassing name for the
technology and applications to be discussed in this group.  "Virtual
worlds" seems to limit the topics to applications of the technology.
Also, virtual-worlds has as much a science fiction sound as
cyberspace.

/craig


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