TerraNova: Death to Snow Crash

Death to Snow Crash


Mike Sellers wrote an interesting piece on the vision of 'virtual worlds' by some sci-fi authors. The vision is usually pretty fantastical and no where near our reality. Our Virtual Worlds of today are mostly the WWW and MMORPG's, which fall quite short of the grand visions.

The main problem with Virtual Worlds comes down to the interface. Our primary ways of interfacing with technology are keyboards and mice. Touch-screens are becoming more common, but is nothing revolutionary. With these interfaces, there are only so many efficient ways to manipulate information. that is what Virtual worlds are about, Information (communication is information). Until better interfaces are developed, we will not have true Virtual Worlds.