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10.25.2007

Castro Goes to Washington

Mr. Castronova, futurist (and social scientist) extraordinaire, went to good old Georgetown University the other day and rocked their (virtual) world!

His basic premise: fantasy life, as found in synthetic worlds, fills a deep need for humans - one we lost, arguably, along with an institutionalized belief in God or other supernatural beings.

Religious or no, humans want to find meaning. And for some of us, quantum physics isn't enough.

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