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10.29.08The Courage to Create (Part Two): Virtual Worlds and the FrontierRollo May wrote that courage contains the "seeming contradiction that we must be fully committed, but we must also be aware at the same time that we might possibly be wrong. This dialectic relationship between conviction and doubt is characteristic of the highest types of courage, and gives lie to the simplistic definitions that identify courage with mere growth." This dialectic is at the heart of the struggle to translate virtual worlds, and in particular those based on the imagination of their users, into the wider adoption that is often quoted as the end goal. We've Reached the Frontier, But It's ...
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