Age Quote by George Packer

Today in America many people are living in a virtual world. They enter it through an internet access device and they navigate freely around…

— William E. Kennard

“Even if virtual worlds were tabula rasa, we are encumbered with a great deal of cognitive baggage. Our brains are hardwired with many mental…

— Nick Yee

There is no avoiding the realities of the information age. Its effects manifest differently in different sectors, but the drivers of speed and interdependence…

— Stanley A. McChrystal

“Since the boom days of World of War-craft and Second Life, there has been a strange, stagnant lull in terms of virtual worlds. I…

— Nick Yee

“What we are finding is that the way we use the virtual world of the Internet—for commerce and for information—is dictated to a large…

— David R. Bell

“The internet is still at the beginning of its beginning. It is only becoming. If we could climb into a time machine, journey 30…

— Kevin Kelly

The information age has been driven and dominated by technopreneurs. We now have to apply these technologies in saving lives, improving livelihoods and lifting…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“Edward Castronova has argued that virtual worlds are “the modern equivalent to supercolliders for social scientists. . . . Virtual worlds allow for societal…

— Nick Yee

The information age has ushered in a networked and interdependent world, one in which challenges and opportunities appear and disappear faster than traditional organizational…

— Chris Fussell

“Over the next generation or two, ever larger numbers of people, hundreds of millions, will become immersed in virtual worlds and online games. While…

— Jane McGonigal

I don't know about virtual world, I think it's more a kind of parallel world. I think the advantages and disadvantages of technology are…

— Jonathan Meades

“Commentators frequently blame MMORPGs for an increasing sense of isolation in modern life. But virtual worlds are less a cause of that isolation than…

— Jonathan Gottschall