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...started innocently enough: last month a friend sent me a virtual lily plant on Facebook and invited me to create a (Lil) Green Patch, a digital garden that would grow on my profile page, and that any of my friends could help water, weed and plant. Sounds cute, right? Not if you've recently suffered through an overwhelming slew of requests to give a grain of rice, send good karma and rate your friends on everything including their hotness, creativity, fashion sense and intelligence. I wasn't merely skeptical - I was annoyed. But I didn't want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suffering From Facebook Fatigue? | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

...Pavarotti's great career therefore ended with a virtual performance, something sad but inevitable.' LEONE MAGIERA, Luciano Pavarotti's longtime pianist and conductor, revealing that the opera singer lip-synched his final public performance at the opening of the 2006 Winter Olympics Numbers

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

...Pavarotti's great career therefore ended with a virtual performance, something sad but inevitable.' LEONE MAGIERA, right, Luciano Pavarotti's longtime pianist and conductor, revealing that the opera singer lip-synched his final public performance at the opening of the 2006 Winter Olympics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

...know you as a pioneer from when I took your computer-science class in college. What milestones in virtual reality do you want those who follow in your footsteps to reach? -Mathew Morton, BostonVirtual reality thus far has focused on bizarre, interesting perceptual thrills. I'd like to see them move on and try to really tell interactive stories. How do you put the user in control? It's a nuanced problem that's going to take a lot of smart people working for a long, long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Randy Pausch | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

...professionally? -German Oliveros, Bucaramanga, ColombiaPersonally, it was the day I proposed to my wife. Nothing could ever touch when she said, 'yes.' Professionally the two moments that come to mind are when I got to Imaginarium, which was just such a joyous thing, and the very first "Building Virtual Worlds" show that we did. It's amazing when young kids do something that is literally beyond your imagination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Randy Pausch | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

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