Life, the Universe and Everything
Virtual Societies
Technology has advance so far that we have now create worlds that exist entirely within a computer simulated environment. What social challenges do these worlds present us?
HSM Article: Realistic Experiences, Not Reality
012 years
Virtual worlds and games are creating increasingly more realistic environments. How much do we want them to match the real world? Realistic Experiences, Not Reality There is a distinction between making a game realistic, as opposed to a mirror of reality. One encompasses more possibilities while another limits its scope to what reality may allow. […]
Home Firing Line: An Adults-Only Home Debated
012 years
For the past year and a half, I have been writing for HomeStation Magazine. It is an Internet magazine that focuses on a Sony virtual world program call PlayStation Home, which has a minimum age of 13. There are some parental controls to apply some restrictions to non-adult users, via sub-accounts. In this article, I […]
Rational Thinking is Not Anti-Belief
014 years
When discussing the facts of science and spiritual beliefs, some interpret my advising them of the facts as an attack on their belief in God. I do no such thing. God can exist within the scientific world (no matter how unlikely that may be) and scientists, such as Kenneth Miller, have written on the subject. […]
The Anonymity of the Internet
014 years
A week ago I saw an article about the unabashed racist comments on the Internet that you don’t hear in public conversations. At the start of the article, the author of the piece asks several rhetorical questions, concerning what this means: Is racism on the rise or has the progress in race relations been an illusion? […]
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014 years
by Roger Gibby
in Virtual Societies
Several months ago, I bought a PlayStation 3 game console in order to play Final Fantasy XIII. The PS 3 comes with the PS network so you can buy games online and download them to the console. It also comes with a virtual socializing environment called PlayStation Home. For those of you who have never experienced social […]