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10.09.08The Three-Dimensional Richness of InformationThe Web and virtual worlds have an uneasy marriage. Maybe the models are too new, or we're trying to fit square pegs into round holes - or flat pages onto cubes, anyways. One motivation for this is that the Web is known. We've learned to surf it, and the content it contains SUITS a 2D environment - text, 2D photos, flat images - whatever, there's no particular NEED to read a book in three dimensions, or a blog, whatever - and yet we sort of wish that the two would blend and merge and we'd all be one big happy ...
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