Word: virtualization
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...last week's Ericsson Open (named for the cellular phone company) tennis tournament in Miami, the net was marked with a Mercedes-Benz symbol at each end. This was the first time I had seen this particular type of selling, though the behind-the-plate ads, both virtual and real, invaded televised baseball a few years ago. Examples abound: In one of the large office buildings in downtown Boston, elevators now have little screens that play commercials to the captive audience. Buying books at the Coop is an exercise in recycling all kinds of choice advertisements that came along with...
...what Saylor seems to have overlooked is that a virtual university simply cannot offer the same experience its real world counterpart can. Sure, you can stick a few lectures online and have chatroom discussions, but that's like having an Oreo cookie without the cream. What's missing in a virtual learning experience is life outside the classroom...
...while Saylor's idealistic vision of a virtual university for all is laudable, it will never be the Internet Ivy experience for which he hopes. The merits of distance education can best be summed up by Georgetown English Professor Carole Fungaroli's comment, "It's the same as sex on the Internet. You can get it online, but it's not as good as in person...
...come home. As the story unfolds, you can hear her clock strike midnight, read meandering asides about her paranoid fears of an intruder and see the floor plan of her apartment slowly revealed onscreen. More ambitious narratives, such as Grammatron by Mark Amerika, which tackles everything from Cabala to virtual sex, come across as pretentious, thanks to lines like, "I ask of writing what I ask of desire...to move beyond death's link to false consciousness." Meanwhile, the group project Fakeshop, shown above, is a multimedia symphony of overlapping windows rhythmically popping up then disappearing onscreen in synch with...
WHICH WAY OUT? Here's a scientific explanation for all those arguments with your spouse over directions. Researchers at the University of Ulm in Germany scanned the brains of men and women as they tried to escape a 3-D virtual-reality maze and found that the sexes use different parts of the brain to process directions. Men relied on their left hippocampus and used geometry to find their way. Women used their right frontal cortex, trusting memory to keep landmarks in mind...