The Virtual Community

1. Objective: It is our task--our essential, central, crucial task--to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.

2. References in the Intro

2.1. M. Scott Peck

2.1.1. The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace

2.1.1.1. stages of community formation

2.1.1.2. characteristics of true community

2.2. Well.com

2.2.1. Wikipedia entry

2.3. MicroMUSE

2.3.1. MicroMUSE is a MUD started in 1990. It is based on the TinyMUSE system, which allows members to interact in a virtual environment called Cyberion City, as well as to create objects and modify their environment.

2.4. TWICS Tokyo

2.4.1. TWICS - Wikipedia

2.5. IRC

2.5.1. Internet Relay Chat - Wikipedia

2.6. Minitel

2.6.1. Minitel - Wikipedia

2.7. MUDs

2.7.1. MUD - Wikipedia

2.8. Michel Foucault

2.8.1. Discipline and Punish

2.8.1.1. Panopticon