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3D, Virtual Reality and VRML

What was interesting about William Gibson's book "Neuromancer" was not that he talked about a world-wide computer network where people plugged in and interacted with each other in a geographically-independent manner.

What was interesting is that he wrote the book on an old-fashioned typewriter in 1984.

The idea of sharing a computer-synthesized 3-dimensional space with others is realized in gaming platforms, and increasingly in practical applications.

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