Friday, February 10, 2006

Waking dream

And he woke up thinking he was a psychologist, a savant in the research of computer-mediated interactions and virtual selves. He dabbled in online addiction therapy, but made a name for himself a year ago when, while finishing his Ph.D. at the age of 30, he joined a covert group of grad students who reverse-engineered an in-game plague that was wiping out thousands in the world's largest MMORPG, not only curing the players but generating the first known case of gaming "antibodies." Months after, he became the world's first licensed in-game therapist.

The shirts are still in Hodgkins. Must like the weather there or something.

1 comment:

poppycock said...

wow. that's kind of like the brothers wachowski thinking, isn't that? something my mind cannot fathom for being too techno but otherwise fascinating.