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06.16.08Augment/Immerse: Here We Go AgainKerim over on Savage Minds posted a review of Tom Boellstorff's book Coming of Age in Second Life and after an extended thread, I came to realize that the debate brought us full circle to concepts of culture versus platform, augmentation versus immersion, and that crazy magic circle thing. I even managed to pull Castranova into it again...he may fallen hero (book one great, book two fine for the first 100 pages and then a frightening hint of a future in which virtual world economists try to program our real lives so that getting your license renewed is more like ...
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