Word: virtually
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...First Distributed Republic,'' says the big panarchist. ``It's a virtual nation-state. I'm the Minister of Data Security. Our official currency is CryptoCredits...
With shoulder-length red dreadlocks and an intense gaze, Jaron Lanier is a striking presence, even in the strange universe of performance art. But then he does nothing so routine as, say, recite sonnets while cartwheeling nude across a stage. Lanier is a virtual-reality performance artist. In his piece, The Sound of One Hand, which has played to packed theaters in Chicago, Toronto and Linz, Austria, he appears onstage framed by the image of a virtual world he enters when he dons special goggles and a DataGlove. His audience sees what he sees -- and what he does, which...
Lanier is in familiar territory: he is widely considered to be the father of virtual reality. Though his name is not yet common fare on the cocktail-party circuit of the cultural elite, he is a star of an astoundingly energized new movement of musicians and visual artists who are defining and redefining their work through the use of cybertechnology. ``The computer is now an accepted tool,'' says David Ross, director of the Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art. ``In the art world, it is no longer an issue.'' From the fashionably bohemian precincts of lower Manhattan to London...
...cybersettlement. ``But if it's done right, online communication can lead to face-to-face contact, not away from it.'' At its best, the sprawling Internet brings together people with mutual interests who, for reasons ranging from geography to social and income disparity, would otherwise never have met. These virtual friendships can lead to physical encounters that may cement lifelong relationships. ``The cybercommunity is not separate from your community of friends; it's just not geographically local,'' says Carolyn Ybarra, an anthropology Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University. When Ybarra moved west from Minneapolis, her online quilting group threw...
...online courtship. In 1993, two years after meeting, the couple married. The problems of cementing relationships in cyberspace pale beside the challenges of forging whole enclaves. In fact, among the cyberintelligentsia, debate rages as to whether the concept of ``community'' even exists in cyberspace. Howard Rheingold, author of The Virtual Community, says, ``I want to dispel the notion that a computer network is by itself a community -- a place where at least some of the people reach out through that screen and affect each other's lives.'' At some point, Rheingold says, ``it requires a further commitment either in real...