“The logic of immediacy dictates that the medium itself should disappear…yet these same old and new media often refuse to leave us alone” (6). I thought this was interesting when combined with the ideas of virtual reality they put forth that states that the goal would be for all the equipment to vanish and for the person to really feel as if they are in the new setting, without the technology. The implication of these two lines together is that virtual reality is not possible because we are so fascinated with our technology that we are unable to look at just what the technology is creating; but that we have to look at it through the lens of the technology, or as being part of that technology. (ie, we look at the plot of video games as the plot of video games, not just as a story line)
When I thought about this in terms of text (books, poetry and such), which is often used as a form of escapism (or virtual reality if you will, it is often said that when reading a really good book you should forget that you are reading) it is interesting because with some text, the actual text and its placement on the page is part of what gives us the meaning of what the text is trying to say so there is no way according to these combined ideas for these text to function at their possible intended level because it is this utilization of the technology that allows for the full meaning to be made which brings attention back to the technology and away from the text itself again.
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