Acknowledgments

I will start this Oscar-award-winning acknowledgments section by thanking those who brought the concept and the reality of SL into existence. They include visionary authors Neil Stephenson, Verner Vinge, and William Gibson. They also include the operational visionaries Philip Rosedale and Cory Ondrejka. I would also like to thank Julian Dibbell for opening my eyes to the social and economic complexities of virtual worlds in his books.

This book would never have happened had it not been for an act of faith on the part of Karen Gettman and Chris Guzikowski. For agreeing to take on this project and allow one of their very techie authors into the mainstream publication market, I thank you. Thanks go to Lori Lyons for taking me through ...

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