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William Gibson: The Rolling Stone 40th Anniversary Interview - The Travelin' Librarian
THE SCI-FI GURU WHO PREDICTED GOOGLE EARTH EXPLAINS SILICON VALLEY’S LATEST OBSESSION
Joanna Robinsonvanityfair.comWhereas the modernity proceeded by differentiating, fragmenting, and specializing on the model of the machine, the digital age is marked by connection and entanglement. McLuhan opened Understanding Media with observations along these lines. “The restructuring of human work and association was shaped by the technique of fragmentation that is the ess
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Today, virtual worlds are microcosms of the physical world. Eventually, the two will bleed into one another. This is already starting to happen:
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relate to rather than a place—the famous cyberspace of the 1980s—that you journey to.
Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
Nowadays we have artificial reality computer games within whose three-dimensional worlds we can wander at will. These first-person role-playing games involve the player in a fully sensory experience. Indeed with the next generation of 3D games they will be able to duplicate our everyday experience of the universe in a digital format. This is what P
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