virtual reality has been The Future for half a century now. imo it speaks to a society that, after the breakneck pace of the industrial revolution, the advances of the "space age," and the cyberneticization/financialization of the economy, has hit a wall, can no longer imagine that technology has the capacity to improve the lived-in world, only that it can provide increasingly elaborate ways to fill us with greater volumes of stimuli.
i think it's probably a doomed endeavor, and there's neither the broad desire nor the physical resources available to make a fully jacked-in lotus-eater world possible. i'm just trying to imagine why the people who choose where the money goes want it to be the inevitable next stage of human development.
virtual reality has been The Future for half a century now. imo it speaks to a society that, after the breakneck pace of the industrial revolution, the advances of the "space age," and the cyberneticization/financialization of the economy, has hit a wall, can no longer imagine that technology has the capacity to improve the lived-in world, only that it can provide increasingly elaborate ways to fill us with greater volumes of stimuli.
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i think it's probably a doomed endeavor, and there's neither the broad desire nor the physical resources available to make a fully jacked-in lotus-eater world possible. i'm just trying to imagine why the people who choose where the money goes want it to be the inevitable next stage of human development.
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