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              <h5 align="right"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#00025E"><img src="../../images/icons/pipe_final.jpg" width="193" height="239" align="left"><loonystart>Vol. 
                2, Issue 6<br>
                December 17, 1999<br>
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                <p align="center"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000FF"><i><font color="#904C10" size="3">Down 

                  the Pipe</font></i></font></b></p>
                <p align="center"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000FF"><i><font color="#904C10" size="6"> 
                  Can't Wait for Cyberspace</font></i></font></b></p>
                <p align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">by 
                  Russell &quot;<a href="mailto:radpipe@loonygames.com">RadPipe</a>&quot; 
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="../../images/letters_new/t.jpg" width="19" height="38" align="left">he 
                Digital Revolution is upon us, baby. Turn on, plug in, and warp 
                out. Say goodbye to the loved ones around you and hello to a whole 
                new world of virtual companions. Let your body atrophy into skin 
                and bones as your net-self thrives and grows into a digital-consuming 
                cyberbeast.</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Virtual 
                Reality is just around the corner. Many will argue that it&#146;s 
                already here, but as far as I&#146;m concerned, it ain&#146;t 
                here until we&#146;re hooking the net right up to our neural pathways. 
                And I&#146;m all for it. I want to see the internet through my 
                eyes, hear it through my ears, touch, taste, smell it through 
                my senses. I want it to be so real that you can&#146;t distinguish 
                it from the real world. </font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">You think 
                perhaps <i>The Matrix </i>has had some influence on me? Yeah probably, 
                but I wrote my first short story about Cyberspace 8 years ago. 
                In it, the characters used Life Coffins to house their bodies 
                while they plugged in to the net. Nobody ventured out onto the 
                streets anymore. If something couldn&#146;t be done in Cyberspace, 
                then it wasn&#146;t worth doing. Simulated Experts fought for 
                their freedom while corporations bought and sold them like slave 
                labor.</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Oh good 
                grief, Rad&#146;s slipped off the deep end again.</font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Maybe. 
                Maybe not. In this week&#146;s Down The Pipe I&#146;m going to 
                focus on the reasons why I can&#146;t wait for the real Virtual 
                Reality to hit us. </font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">In Cyberspace 
                there is no travel time. I can go to work instantly. I can hook 
                up with friends around the world in a heartbeat. I can order a 
                pizza in less time than it takes to decide what I want on it. 
                This is pretty substantial when you consider how much of your 
                daily routine involves going places and waiting in line. How much 
                time per day would you save? Also, consider this: I can step halfway 
                around the world and visit my cousins in Australia, and when their 
                kids start getting on my nerves, I can be gone in an instant. 
                </font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">No more 
                physical violence. Now you gotta think about this one, and yes 
                I&#146;m still talking about the future Cyberspace where we plug 
                the net right into our brains. Gaming violence is still around, 
                because that&#146;s still fun and by then we&#146;ll have proven 
                it doesn&#146;t really affect us. But physical violence won&#146;t 
                be tolerated in much the same was as IRC abusers are banned from 
                chat rooms. You play nice or I&#146;ll show you the door. In Cyberspace 
                it&#146;s not the size of your muscles that counts, it&#146;s 
                the weight of your status.</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Drink 
                a perfect brew of coffee every time, with no drawbacks! This works 
                kind of like the replicator on Star Trek. If something doesn&#146;t 
                taste exactly to your liking, just keep changing parameters until 
                it does. And drink as much of it as you want! No more worries 
                about tooth decay from all that sugar. No more worries about caffeine 
                poisoning. Drink and drink and drink. And if you do really want 
                that caffeine high? Well, just tell the computer to buzz you up. 
                Heck, it is plugged right into your brain, after all. But this 
                goes for all foods. While your body is sucking up some nutritious 
                sludge in the Life Coffin, you can stuff your face with the most 
                unhealthy foods your mind can dream up. Then you can do it again 
                tomorrow! </font></p>
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