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Cybertown features technological advances like "shared-state" environments where your actions with objects will be seen simultaneously by people in the same environment from anywhere in the world. For example: when you move the sofa in your living room, your guests will see where you put it and know where to sit. You can secure your house so that only your friends can visit. The identity established by your avatar - which can be completely customised - is also maintained from community to community.

Uses zoom interface -- narrowing down into neighborhoods of interest and compatibility. 'Colonies are self-selecting -- people grouping with others of shared interests or attitudes.

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