The Future's Here, We Are It, We

God's Jokes Are The Soul's Curriculum.

If You're Not Lost, You're Not Much Of An Explorer.

I'm Still Strongly Opposed To Antismoking Laws, Strongly Opposed To Any Law That Regulates Personal Behavior.

Imagine Discovering A Continent So Vast That It May Have No End To Its Dimensions. Imagine A New World With More Resources Than All Our Future Greed Might Exhaust, More Opportunities Than There Will Ever Be Entrepreneurs Enough To Exploit, And A Peculiar Kind Of Real Estate That Expands With Development. Imagine A Place Where Trespassers Leave No Footprints, Where Goods Can Be Stolen Infinite Number Of Times And Yet Remain In The Possession Of Their Original Owners, Where Business You Never Heard Of Can Own The History Of Your Personal Affairs.

I Have A Feeling Virtual Reality Will Further Expose The Conceit That 'reality' Is A Fact. It Will Provide Another Reminder Of The Seamless Continuity Between The World Outside And The World Within, Delivering Another Major Hit To The Old Fraud Of Objectivity. 'real,' As Kevin Kelly Put It, 'is Going To Be One Of The Most Relative Words We'll Have.'