Word: virtually
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...that other technologies--particularly television--have failed to do? TV seems to have lured people away from their communities. Could it be that the Net is starting to bring them back together? Can it create new communities of spiritual consensus not in real time but in virtual space...
...France, Roman Catholics are closely following the online activities of a controversial bishop named Jacques Gaillot. Exiled by the Pope to an abandoned diocese in 1995 because of his liberal social views, Gaillot has established what he calls a virtual diocese to replace it. He marvels at the freedom he enjoys loosed from the hierarchy of the church. "On the Internet there is no question of someone imposing rules on the way people communicate," he says. "The Net has no center from which will can be applied...
...years after Edwin Armstrong cranked up his first receiver, the good word was streaming from American radio stations, first shocking and then energizing what was then still a devoutly conservative country. Father Charles Coughlin, a firecracker Catholic priest who pounded a broadcast pulpit from Detroit, built a virtual congregation in just four years. For tens of millions of Depression-era believers, his Shrine of the Little Flower was a beacon of hope--until an embarrassed church pulled the plug. And though there was plenty of anti-Semitism, isolationism and fear mongering in Coughlin's speeches, there was little irony: even...
...those who eschew competitive entertainment in favor of more relaxing pastimes, PF Magic has a solution with their hit programs, Catz (www.catz.com) and Dogz (www.dogz.com). When you install either program on your system, you get a "virtual...
...what happens behind the datajack? As simple as a network appears when you are at the keyboard, your every action online involves a complex ballet of data jumping from point to point in virtual space...