"True Names" and Fnoor

A couple of posts ago, I was writing about "Virtualization." And my attention was called to "True Names," a 2008 novella by Benjamin Rosenbaum and Cory Doctorow, about competing layers of VR. You can find "True Names" either or in print in Lou Anders' Fast Forward 2 anthology—I don't like reading long thing on the computer screen, so I actually got a used copy of Fast Forward 2 for about $3. And I read "True Names" this week. And it sets off all kinds of thoughts, as did a comment...