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project assumption
The boundary between real and virtual is fading. As we enter a world of informatic marvel the layering of information will no longer be seen as something "else", it will begin to form part of the real experience.
The virtual will supplement the "physical", and this supplemented experience shall become the new "real".
"The virtual coincides with the notion of hyper-reality. Virtual Reality, the reality that might be said to be perfectly homogenized, digitized and "operartionlized", substitutes for the other because it is perfect, verifiable and non-contradictory. ...
We no longer have the good old philosophical sense of the term, where the virtual was what was destined to become actual, or where the dialectic was established between the two notions. ...
At the stage we are at, we do not know whether technology, having reached a point of extreme sophistication, will liberate us from technology itself - the optimistic viewpoint - or whether in fact we are heading for catastrophe. Even though catastrophes ... assume happy or unhappy forms"