MIT's Tech Review reviews the Red Light Center ("the Internet's most advanced virtual reality universe"), which, besides sex,

caters to other pleasures, or vices, too. Starting today, you'll be able to use your PC to enter a virtual rave and take virtual ecstasy, smoke a virtual joint, and even munch on some virtual mushrooms. The target market is illegal-drug virgins who want to find out what's going on without upsetting their brain chemistry (or risking failing a drug test).

RoughType observes that: "When the concept of virtual, or artificial, reality first emerged at the end of the sixties, it was tightly connected to the drug culture," and reaches the logical conclusion: "When avatars hallucinate, they must see the real world."

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