6th June 2006, 7:39 PM
They can "show more world" in the ways I described, which you seem to have ignored. How about a vast ocean I'll drown in if I swim too far, or the edge of a cliff, or a wall with, I dunno, peep holes in it? There are ways of doing it that would allow me to see further but actually give me a good reason why I couldn't go further. Even a mystical energy barrier would work, because that's "magic land", home of witches.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)