"I'm the kind of author who likes to hang out in Adolf Hitler's home town with the High Priestess of Weird. (...) I like to imagine the future of computer games as being something like the Steve Jackson Games bust by the Secret Service, only in this case what they were busting wouldn't have been a mistake, it would have been something actually quite seriously inexplicable and possibly even a genuine cultural threat.... Something of the sort may come from virtual reality. I rather imagine something like an LSD backlash occuring there; something along the lines of: "Hey we have something here that can really seriously boost your imagination!" "Well, Mr Developer, I'm afraid we here in the Food Drug and Software Administration don't really approve of that." That could happen. I think there are some visionary computer police around who are seriously interested in that prospect, they see it as a very promising growing market for law enforcement, it's kind of their version of a golden vaporware."

RECOMMENDED READING: Bruce Sterling - Game conference speech: "The Wonderful Power of Storytelling" (Computer Game Developers Conference, March 1991, San Jose CA)