How Does A World End?

I mentioned one virtual world – WoW – a couple of days ago. Now comes news that another virtual world – Asheron’s Call – is about to die. The game’s owners will pull the plugs on its servers at the end of the month. Wired has a bittersweet article about the demise of the world.

 

Wired has another article on the theme of "all things must pass" – the Bay Area NeXT Group is closing its doors. The NeXT computer was a machine that was ahead of its time – too far ahead as it turned out. It was a computer that I lusted over, but could never hope to have. Still, the ghost of NeXT lives on – in the Mac OS X operating system.