From: pdavies@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Paul Davies)
Subject: Re: Virtuality and the Dominant Culture:  Review from AFTERIMAGE,
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1992 19:12:27 GMT
Message-ID: <1992Jan8.191227.22851@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
Organization: University of Toronto Chemistry Department



In article <1992Jan8.011919.26834@milton.u.washington.edu> yamauchi@cs.
rochester.edu (Brian Yamauchi) writes:

>What Druckery seems to be missing is that culture has been driven by
>technology since the days of paintings on cave walls.  Each new
>technology redefines the way in which culture is expressed and
>propagated -- from written language to the printing press to radio to
>television to computer networks to virtual reality and beyond...

Yes, this is most definately true.  I believe that McLuhan had much to
say on that :)

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                                 | "The effects of technology do not occur
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                                 |  - Marshall McLuhan
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