Comments on: Promise and challenge: augmenting places with sources http://www.stoa.org/archives/659 Serving news, projects, and links for digital classicists everywhere. Wed, 08 May 2013 16:09:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Tom Elliott http://www.stoa.org/archives/659/comment-page-1#comment-76693 Tom Elliott Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:44:14 +0000 http://www.stoa.org/?p=659#comment-76693 This meme is hot. Shortly after making the post, I discovered this: Wade Roush, “Second Earth,” MIT Technology Review, July/August 2007, http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18911/page1/.

Abstract:
“The World Wide Web will soon be absorbed into the World Wide Sim: an immersive, 3-D visual environment that combines elements of social virtual worlds such as Second Life and mapping applications such as Google Earth. What happens when the virtual and real worlds collide?”

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