Thursday, October 14, 2010

virtual utopias: Snow Crash & Circuit of Heaven

virtual utopias

"virtual" refers to "virtual reality" or "virtual worlds"

Virtual reality--many terms for same development, or different aspects of it

cybernetics, IT (instructional / information technology)

The Matrix

computer-simulated environment

artificial reality

computer graphics

cyberspace, computer-simulated world

wired / wireless world

online

virtual reality: cocooning, infosphere

reality becomes code, data, information

compare Platonism, platonic ideals, simplified geometrical forms

escapes rough edges & messiness of biological existence

virtual reality = technology allowing viewer to interact with simulated environment

virtusphere

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