From: think!aeolus.dev.think.com!dfl@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU (David Lively)
Subject: Re: sci.virtual-worlds
Date: 29 Aug 91 10:17:58
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA


In article <1991Aug25.184409.3792@milton.u.washington.edu> fortony@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Felix Sebastian Ortony) writes:

   [...]

   In common bondage terminology, this sort of escape mechanism is called a
   'safeword'.  That's one reason why virtual reality will never be exactly
   like reality -- it'll have to have externalized controls to return the
   explorer to reality when she issues the safeword signal.  I wonder what

Or will it?  "Ah ha ha ha!  You'll never go back again!"  :-)

David