December 12, 1999 at 4:46 am
· Filed under hate, battler, bored, cyber, drunk, aggressive, beligerant, escapism, history, historian, anti, email, grandstand, black hole, attack, appease, heirarchy, context, audience
Date: Saturday, December 11, 1999, 11:17:55 AM
Subject: Winners and Losers..
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In the constructive desire to halt any animosity that I may have created
with Damien by my rather pedestrian concerns that technology
can only be understood within broader social, historical and political
structures, I have decided to log-off and find a less conflicted soap-box.
Sorry if I have offended anyone, just a grumpy young historian in a dying
discipline flogging out-moded ideas in increasingly constricted spaces.
milkbar boy…
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August 3, 1999 at 7:11 pm
· Filed under cyber, bubble, misunderstanding
What I see as one of the great problems when discussing VR or other ephemeral terms such as interactive or ‘cyber’ or ‘multi’ or other computer-mediated expressions is that often the hermeneutic apparatus used to describe them is often little more than a wish list or projections. The potential for VR is huge, but the proof is in the pudding so to speak. Jetfighers, banal street scapes, elevator musak, corporate logos, classical references to dated notions of ‘high culture’. I’m just telling it how it is..street level. Every time I turn on the television I think, such potential then turn it off.
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