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The Griefer Future

Posted on June 23, 2008

Nice little future you got there. Hate to see something bad happen to it.The blending of the physical and immersive digital worlds -- the metaverse -- inevitably produces bizarre results. I've noted (and we've started to see examples of) the possibility of hacking digital-physical objects. The potential for nano-spam continues to haunt us. But the mash-up between the virtual and the real worlds likely to affect the greatest number of us is griefing. Griefing is, simply put, making someone else's online game session miserable. It's not simply beating someone in player-vs.-player competitions, ...

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