Monthly Archives: July 1999

VR Definition

I think that it is a much more difficult skill to communicate than to obviate. We already have an enormously sophisticated English language to describe digital media, it doesn’t need it’s own language. This is why terms such as VR are so devoid of meaning, even though the actual product may not be. I think [...]

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VR Definition

I’m a big fan of Margaret Verthein’s The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace also (but you forgot to put quotation marks around her work cited).I think that the most pertinent questions to ask about any medium is what can its use tell us about the state of the culture and society in which we actually live [...]

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Macromedia and the 20th Century…

Date: Tuesday, December 7, 1999, 10:23:43 AM Subject: Macromedia and the 20th Century… ===8<==============Original message text=============== >An event which was to greatly affect Turing throughout his life took place >in 1928. He formed a close friendship with Christopher Morcom, a pupil in >the year above him at school, and the two worked together on scientific [...]

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Me and Charlie Darwin are Mates..

Date: Tuesday, December 7, 1999, 10:30:36 AM Subject: Me and Charlie Darwin are Mates.. ===8<==============Original message text=============== Dear Fellow Un-evolved Rock Apes, Of course factions of the web community think that the web is ‘the natural evolution of human knowledge”…they get paid for it and they have a great investment in convincing the public that [...]

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The 20th Century

(38 Days to go until the end of the people’s century) The past is necessarily inferiour to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit in our most dangerous enemy? This is how we deny the past and how we cooperate with the victorious who hold the [...]

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