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10.18.08Virtual Worlds: Top Five Books Cover Second Life, Avatars, and CashIf you had to recommend 5 books on virtual worlds what would they be? I was chatting with a professor - you know, the kind of person who uses parentheses when he's talking, has a slender pair of reading glasses perched on the end of his nose and wears strangely patterned sweaters now that fall is here. Anyways, he was asking me how to learn more about virtual worlds and I made the mistake of rattling off a few URLS, but what he actually wanted was, um, a list of BOOKS - I guess he needed the filter of fellow eggheads ...
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10.02.08Virtual Worlds Prove That Life Is Too RealThere's a certain logic to this, or maybe it's just a reminder, one of those "everything I needed to know I learned in Kindergarten" kind of things: games are fun, life is boring, if only life was more like a game. And there's a logic to it. And it's what Edward Castranova pointed out, first in his groundbreaking work Synthetic Worlds, and then in his extended job application "Exodus to the Virtual World". In the first book, he argued that games are fun in a way that has VALUE, showing us that the economic activity in virtual worlds proved that they ...
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