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Extension
&
Presence
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Throughout history we have been learning to
stretch ourselves outside of
ourselves. We have been extending our minds outside of their natural location. |
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Motion
&
Animation |
Since we invented and used tools we have been extending our sense of place into artificial locations where body is not body. A place further out beyond arms reach had come into existence. |
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------------- Telepresence In Cyberspace -------------
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Presence
in
Space
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Non-verbal and verbal language allowed us to identify with each other's experiences in a way that could be considered as reading minds. |
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Formal
V. R. |
With the arrival of virtual reality we have created a place, which is niether in our heads nor in the world.
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Media
&
Presence
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From the invention of the printing press, through electronic media, to the internet our technologies have allowed us us to get closer and closer to each other. |
Anthropo-
morphisms
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Our information devices are becoming humanized. |
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Reading
&
the
Creation
of
Place
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The greatest virtual reality tool is the book. The reader creates everything; scenery, particular face, etc. . . from simple abstract symbols on a blank page. Where in other media many of these things are given. Until the computer is connected to the parts of the brain, that produce the phenomenon of reading and stimulates these regions in a likewise manner as reading, it will pale in comparison with the written word. |
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THE
GLASSES
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Soon all electronic media will seem to dissapear from society. All computers, phones, televisions, etc. . ., will be shrunken down and put into a lightwieght pair of glasses. |
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The
Great
Shrinking
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Contact lenses will replace the glasses and electronic media will succeed in appearing to disappear from the world. The contacts will be replaced with artificial-multi-media-lens, which will be implanted in the eye. |
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INTERFACE
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Then we will be ready to connect electronic media directly to the nerve cells in our brains. |
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WORLD
WIDE
MIND
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The Global Village has influenced the occurance of mass movements like no other time in history. The infrastructure of a network is forming that will grow into a place we can go to that will become grafted onto ourselves and nature. |
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Contents For The Information Age
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