simulationism-word-already-new-technologies-virtual-reality-actual-reality

I don't believe in simulationism, I believe that the word is already old-fashioned. As I see it, new technologies are substituting a virtual reality for an actual reality. And this is more than a phase: it's a definite change.

Paul Virilio
0/5 (0)

Paul Virilio's Popular Quotes

Today, everything is about speed and real time. We are no longer concerned with real space.

- Paul Virilio

Look at the Intifadah in Jerusalem. One cannot understand that phenomenon, a phenomenon where people, often very young boys, are successfully harassi…

- Paul Virilio

The true problem with virtual reality is that orientation is no longer possible. We have lost our points of reference to orient ourselves. The de-rea…

- Paul Virilio

To regain our liberty (and our distance), we must slow the images down.

- Paul Virilio

How can we live if there is no more here and everything is now?

- Paul Virilio

When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, …

- Paul Virilio

Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.

- Paul Virilio

Digital messages and images matter less than their instantaneous delivery; the shock effect always wins out over the consideration of the information…

- Paul Virilio

Virtuality will destroy reality.

- Paul Virilio
0 Comments

Login to join the discussion