Sunday, April 29, 2007

Virtual drug taking pushes online users to far-out alternative reality / Guardian, 26 April 2007
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/opinion/story/0,,2065166,00.html
Nicholas Carr
"An American company named Utherverse has expanded the bounds of virtual reality. It began allowing members of its x-rated online world, Red Light Center, to use recreational drugs. They'll now be able, according to a report in Technology Review, "to enter a virtual rave, take virtual ecstasy, smoke a virtual joint and even chow down on some hallucinogenic virtual mushrooms"."