Virtual Quotes
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When virtual reality gets cheaper than dating, society is doomed.
Scott Adams
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The personal computer can be a virtual device.
Barry Lam
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The decisive factor governing where in the hierarchy an individual ends up is his or her attentionality: their access to and capacity to absorb, sort, overview, generate the necessary attention for, and share valuable information. Attention is the only hard currency in the virtual world. The strategy and logic of the netocracy are therefore attentionalist rather than capitalist.
Alexander Bard
Army of Lovers
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In the past things were either in your head (subjective, imaginary, fantasy) or else they were part of the outside world - cold, hard, concrete materialistic reality. If you want to look at it in terms of poetry, there was surrealism and objectivism. Now there's the veil of the virtual in between. The old opposition between inner and outer doesn't quite capture it, especially as it contains elements of both. It's real but not concrete.
Elaine Equi
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The more abysmal the experience of the actual, the greater the implied heights of the virtual.
Ben Lerner
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It's not virtual reality until you can be tortured to death in it.
Andrew Plotkin
