Making Reality A Cyberspace

Kellogg, W. A., Carroll, J. M., in addition to Richards, J. T. 1991. Making reality a cyberspace. In Cyberspace: First Steps, M. Benedikt, Ed. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 411-430.

I can’t pretend to endure able to approach this chapter without bias: dainty paper, Dad!

So I volition for right away only quote or in addition to then bits (bits I like), which I’ll endeavour to assimilate for fully later.

• “The development in addition to application of this technology is already occurring in addition to it is incumbent upon us right away to laid about to envision in addition to empathise network every bit such: what people mightiness produce alongside it in addition to inwards it, its potential in addition to limitations inwards furthering human goals” (411: emphasis added).
• “This strategy essentially inverts the pattern problem: rather than cry for how network mightiness endure realized, it asks how the ordinary practices in addition to objects of reality mightiness endure cyberized. We advise a distributed, augmented reality rather than an enclosed, simulated reality, a reality inwards which cyberization is integrated seamlessly into people’s everyday activities, in addition to real-world objects accept on virtual attributes in addition to behaviors that back upwards in addition to heighten those activities. The center of this proposal is to convey network to the people, rather than the people to cyberspace” (412-13).
• “Considering virtual realities every bit business office of reality every bit opposed to apart from reality expands the virtual Blue Planet pattern space” (413).
• “Domains where in that place is a high demand for the mortal to stay integrated alongside normal reality volition endure natural candidates for augmented rather than simulated realities” (414).
• “Augmenting reality (rather than replacing it alongside a simulated reality) way cry for how real-world objects, inherently dispersed in addition to disconnected, tin dismiss endure made sensitive to personal or cultural distinctions, inwards a mode that tin dismiss endure straight experienced or acted upon past times a person” (419).
• “We advise that realization of at to the lowest degree the next principles volition endure necessary for creating meaning in addition to usable distributed cyberspaces: richness, connectivity, persistence, in addition to direct interaction”(419).
• “Virtual worlds produce non be exclusively inwards or in addition to then enclosed cyberspace: they be inwards human culture, knowledge, in addition to values every bit well” (430).
• “Designers in addition to implementers of enclosed cyberspaces for everyday human practices, no less than designers of spreadsheets or give-and-take processors, volition get got to accept attention to brand contact alongside the existent Blue Planet in addition to existing nontechnological virtual worlds if their creations are to endure successful” (430).