San Antonio College Library

An account of the creation, development, and potential of Linden Lab's popular virtual world evaluates its pseudo-economy, culture, and political system, citing the lucrative profits being made there by such real-world companies as Pontiac and Sun Microsystems.

From a cutting-edge cultural commentator and documentary filmmaker, this work is a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the Internet as the great democratizing force of our age. The Internet has been hailed as a place where all can be heard and everyone can participate equally. But how true is this claim? In this seminal dismantling of techno-utopian visions, the author argues that for all that we "tweet" and "like" and "share," the...

"Deeply insightful and significant investigation of how the science and rhetoric of cybernetics have reshaped the boundaries of human identity." Village Voice.