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11.07.09Linden Lab at War: Virtual Worlds and Human TechnologyYou rez a prim in Second Life and you add another prim or two and you have a house, and suddenly your brain starts to believe that there's a sort of pattern of extrapolation everywhere you look: the smallest thing is part of something larger, or has the potential to be part of something larger still, and suddenly I'm at the book store and I start wondering about who chose to categorize the magazines the way they did, why the titles about Photoshop are under art but the ones on 3D design are lumped together in the gaming section, or ...
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07.05.08Welcome to the Guild Hall: Virtual Worlds, Creators, and the Medieval MindOne Hit Machine Replaced with Another In the Long Tail, Chris Anderson likens our age, one in which the tools for production are no longer controlled by the distributors of yesterday, as the fulfillment of the vision outlined by Marx, of a world filled with self activity: “Marx maintained that labor - forced, unspontaneous and waged work- would be superceded by self-activity.” Eventually, he hoped, there would be a time when “material production leaves every person surplus time for other activities.” Marx evoked a communist society in which “…nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any ...
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