Introduction : old world to new world : a brief history of the metaverse
Touching knowledge : from virtual reality to real company
Imagining the Net in 3-D : shunting the datastream into rivers and sky
The engines of creation : the alchemy of user-created content
The unwisdom of crowds : object lessons in online-world social engineering
Self-made mankind : identity and role-playing with the digital generation
Making love : romance and desire, digitized for your protection
Building walls, defending territory : border disputes and culture clashing in war's shadow
Burning down the house : democracy as a business model
Avatar as entrepreneur : from content creator to revenue generator
Investing in utopia : a rough explorer's guidefor corporations and organizations in the metaverse
Law is code : crime and punishment in the Net's 3-D future
Building a better world : research, education, and activism in an online world
Convergence : an internet-to-online world road map for the next decade.