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Virtual worlds are persistent online computer-generated environments where people can interact, whether for work or play, in a manner comparable to the real world. The most popular current example is World of Warcraft, a massively multiplayer online game with eleven million subscribers. However, other virtual worlds, notably Second Life, are not games at all but internet-based collaboration contexts in which people can create virtual objects, simulated architecture, and working groups. This book brings together an international team of highly accomplished authors to examine the phenomena of virtual worlds, using a range of theories and methodologies to discover the principles that are making virtual worlds increasingly popular, and which are establishing them as a major sector of human-centred computing.

Computer Science. --- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. --- Computer Graphics. --- Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences. --- Computers and Society. --- e-Commerce/e-business. --- Computer science. --- Computer graphics. --- Social sciences --- Informatique --- Infographie --- Sciences sociales --- Data processing. --- Virtual reality --- Human-computer interaction --- Human-computer interaction. --- Shared virtual environments. --- Virtual reality. --- Computer Science --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Environments, Virtual --- Virtual environments --- Virtual worlds --- Computer-human interaction --- Human factors in computing systems --- Interaction, Human-computer --- User interfaces (Computer systems). --- Application software. --- Computers and civilization. --- E-commerce. --- Computer simulation --- Reality --- Human engineering --- User-centered system design --- User interfaces (Computer systems) --- Automatic drafting --- Graphic data processing --- Graphics, Computer --- Computer art --- Graphic arts --- Electronic data processing --- Engineering graphics --- Image processing --- Informatics --- Science --- Digital techniques --- Cybercommerce --- E-business --- E-commerce --- E-tailing --- eBusiness --- eCommerce --- Electronic business --- Internet commerce --- Internet retailing --- Online commerce --- Web retailing --- Commerce --- Information superhighway --- Civilization and computers --- Civilization --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software --- Interfaces, User (Computer systems) --- Human-machine systems --- Electronic commerce. --- Computer Application in Social and Behavioral Sciences. --- e-Commerce and e-Business.

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The newest communication technologies are profoundly changing the world's politics, economies, and cultures, but the specific implications of online gameworlds remain mysterious.  The Virtual Future employs theories and methods from social science to explore nine very different virtual futures:  The Matrix Online, Tabula Rasa, Anarchy Online, Entropia Universe, Star Trek Online, EVE Online, Star Wars Galaxies, World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade, and The Chronicles of Riddick.  Each presents a different picture of how technology and society could evolve in coming centuries, but one theme runs through all of them, the attempt to escape the Earth and seek new destinies among the stars.  Four decades after the last trip to the moon, a new conception of spaceflight is emerging.  Rather than rockets shooting humans across vast physical distances to sterile rocks that lack the resources to sustain life, perhaps robot space probes and orbiting telescopes will glean information about the universe, that humans can then experience inside computer-generated environments much closer to home.  All nine of these fantastically rich multiplayer masterpieces have shown myriads of people that really radical alternatives to contemporary society could exist, and has served as a laboratory for examining the consequences.  Each is a prototype of new social forms, a utopian subculture, and a simulation of technologies that have yet to be invented.  They draw upon several different traditions of science fiction and academic philosophy, and they were created in several nations.  By comparing these nine role-playing fantasies, we can better consider what kind of world we want to inhabit in the real future.

Computer games -- Social aspects. --- Computer games. --- Shared virtual environments. --- Social Sciences --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Computer Science --- Recreation & Sports --- Computer games --- Social aspects. --- Immersive virtual environments --- IVEs (Immersive virtual environments) --- Multi-user distributed virtual environments --- Multi-user virtual environments --- MUVEs (Multi-user virtual environments) --- Shared VEs (Shared virtual environments) --- SVEs (Shared virtual environments) --- Computer science. --- Application software. --- Education --- Computers and civilization. --- Multimedia systems. --- Computer Science. --- Computers and Society. --- Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences. --- Computer Applications. --- Media Design. --- Computers and Education. --- Data processing. --- Virtual reality --- Social sciences --- Education. --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training --- Informatics --- Science --- Multimedia systems . --- Education—Data processing. --- Computer-based multimedia information systems --- Multimedia computing --- Multimedia information systems --- Multimedia knowledge systems --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software --- Civilization and computers --- Computer uses in education --- Computers in education --- Educational computing --- Microcomputer uses in education --- Microcomputers in education

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Personality Capture and Emulation is the gateway to an amazing future that actually may be achieved, enabling the preservation and simulation of human personalities at progressively higher levels of fidelity. This challenge is no longer the province merely of uninhibited visionaries, but has become a solid field of research, drawing upon a wide range of information technologies in human-centered computing and cyber-human systems. Even at modest levels of accomplishment, research in this emerging area requires convergence of cognitive, social, and cultural sciences, in cooperation with information engineering and artificial intelligence, thus stimulating new multidisciplinary perspectives. Therefore this book will inspire many specific research and development projects that will produce their own valuable outcomes, even as the totality of the work moves us closer to a major revolution in human life. Will it ever really be possible to transfer a human personality at death to a technology that permits continued life? Or will people come to see themselves as elements in a larger socio-cultural system, for which a societal information system can provide collective immortality even after the demise of individuals? A large number and variety of pilot studies and programming projects are offered as prototypes for research that innovators in many fields may exploit for the achievement of their own goals. Together, they provide an empirical basis to strengthen the intellectual quality of several current debates at the frontiers of the human and information sciences.

Computer science. --- Philosophy of mind. --- Social sciences --- Data processing. --- Mind, Philosophy of --- Mind, Theory of --- Theory of mind --- Informatics --- User interfaces (Computer systems). --- Application software. --- Sociology. --- Computer Science. --- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. --- Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences. --- Sociology, general. --- Philosophy of Mind. --- Philosophy --- Cognitive science --- Metaphysics --- Philosophical anthropology --- Science --- Social theory --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software --- Interfaces, User (Computer systems) --- Human-machine systems --- Human-computer interaction --- Social sciences - Data processing. --- Human-computer interaction. --- Artificial intelligence. --- Computer Application in Social and Behavioral Sciences. --- Computer-human interaction --- Human factors in computing systems --- Interaction, Human-computer --- Human engineering --- User-centered system design --- User interfaces (Computer systems)