" Everything'll be okay as long as they think Dr. Manhattan is watching them "
But : with the coming tsunami or biotech ( which we're not ready for ) this may all come to an end. Even more, they may start cloning up things to fool around with, putting me and my ilk out of a job. ( Who needs a hemomorph when you can grow one in a lab ? )
" Extended Identity: Human activity is increasingly migrating to the digital realm. The rise in popularity of MMORPGs such as Second Life and World of Warcraft show that the self can, to a non-trivial degree, be transferred to an alternative medium. With the maturation of these technologies will come distributed personhood and new legal protections to guarantee safe and ubiquitous online activity. "
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Can probably trace the begining of this to people treating their D&D character sheets as ' documents '. In fact one ubergeek-dork I knew had his 25th level magic user character character sheet notarized by a notary public, and, signed by Gary Gygax ( !!! ) < really >
Brendan McAuliffe
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In other news ... the run up to War will probably be fast. ( divided by the amount things are connected and things are very connected now )

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