“Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man’s love by expediting his wishes and desires.” Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media

They’re not out for a year, no doubt the BBC Tech news page will be running a couple of stories a day on it until then though. Someone suggested that the ultimate BBC Tech story would be about someone making an iPhone in Second Life, they could probably just close that section of the site once that happened.

PS. Yes the post title is a reference to They Live, basically the rule ’round here is: If in doubt it’s a reference to They Live.

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