Blue Nowhere: Real World vs. Computer World

I find it very interesting how the real world and the computer world are seperate but often intertwined throughout this novel. Phate is playing a "game" that started on the internet but then carried over to the real world when the online game was shut down. Phate could not be a "real" person unless he was online. When he was in the real world, he was always social engineering and pretending to be someone else. I also found it interesting that the team tracking Phate produced many leads online but those leads were often anticipated and resulted in damage being down to the investigation. However, many leads often surfaced through good old-fashioned police work and these often put Phate on the run (even though he came out on top until the end). I also found it interesting that Wyatt and other hackers in the story did all of these great exploits on the computer but still kept an ethical framework.