As the holiday season approaches, one is tempted to use a Dickensian reference
about spirits past, present and future.
But instead of a holiday classic from 1843, I’m going to haunt you with an earworm from 1981.
Having matriculated in the same year that The Police recorded Spirits in the Material World on their Ghosts in the Machine album, the song is deeply embedded in my brain.
It has begun popping up in my mind more and more, for I consider it a theme song for the material world counter-cultural phenomenon, virtualization. This leads us to RACE, the epitome of virtual worlds here at SAS.