Promises and Challenges of Networked Virtual Environments

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being thaught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system.
Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...

Neuromancer by William Gibson 1984

From VR to Internetworked VR or Networked Virtual Environment ?

Sandeep Singhal & Michael Zyda "Networked Virtual Environments - Design and Implementation", ACM Press 1999.