Will the Real Body Please Stand Up?? (Review)

• The divide between nature and technology has become thoroughly unrecognizable.
• Computer Cross Dressing
  • “Consensual hallucinations in which data may be visualized, heard, and felt,”-William Gibson
  • Example games: Second Life, Skyrim, World of Warcraft, Flight Simulators
• Epoch One(Texts):
  • Deals with the introduction of texts in the 1600’s by Robert Boyle
  • Boyle created a group of “likeminded gentleman” that acted in the form of a non-physical community
• Epoch Two(Communication and entertainment)
  • Early electronic virtual communities and the invention of the telegraph and phonograph
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “fireside chats.”: Served to create virtual community through the technology of radio
• Epoch Three(Informational Technology):
  • BBS(Bulletin Board Services)- Served as a virtual version pf an actual physical bulletin board and several people could post notes on them.
  • SIMNET
• Epoch Four(Cyberspace and Virtual Reality)
  • 3D cyberspace laid groundwork of things like the flight simulator used by the air force
• Seeing people interact with technology everyday and everywhere has become normal.