Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 15:58:36 -0600
From: ann klefstad <klefkal-AT-cp.duluth.mn.us>
Subject: Re: a few new direction's


Sterling writes:

tactile, which is a better descriptive than
>sensual, I think, since we have nothing but sensory data

Waal, sorta.  I had a dustup 20 years ago with my committee concerning the
different meanings of the terms "sensory" and "sensual"--
also, I think S. ostrow is refering to the poverty of digital stuff's
sensual means, virtual reality be damned. It's still a tremendously
impoverished field compared to -- just sitting here, for instance, in a
reasonably mindful way.

>with what the computer will shortly do to the cinema, and, consequently, to
>the reality we will form, as Ostrow puts it... 

The computer already runs the cinema. They've got soc. sci. statistics grads
running studio development depts.! Information concerning the pretty darn
predictable desires of target audiences already makes "our" culture.

Klefstad



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