For example, our technology has to take this great action game, fuse it with a richly simulatedworld that we fill with unique player characters, each with their own history and unique abilities and characteristics.
Recent setbacks in Nasa's exploration of the Red Planet have failed to dim the enthusiasm of a group of scientists who plan to build the world's first simulated Mars base.
She'd gossip about the doings in the virtual office, taking special care to note whenever our simulated selves had done something surprising atypical of their real world counterparts.
When the Internet showed up, I was struck by the thought that one could connect a number of servers together over the network, and create a giant simulated space in which people could re-imagine the whole world.