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:date: 2012-06-12 16:01:40
:author: bnewbold
:category: quote
:slug: 2012-06-12-turning-an-inhabited-planet-into-a-vr-simulation
:status: published

Turning an inhabited planet into a VR simulation might be comparable to
filling in wetlands to make a mall, clear-cutting a rainforest to make a
destination golf resort, or killing a whale to whittle its teeth into
religious icons of a whale god.

— `rudy
rucker <http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2012/06/10/the-great-big-beautiful-tomorrow/>`__

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