From: Bob Jacobson <bob@worldesign.com>
Subject: Re: SOC: virtual reality and architecture
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 04:35:02 -0700
Organization: Worldesign Inc., Seattle - Information Design


chan mun lun wrote:
> 
> Question... would VR eventually take over architecture and we'd
> actually have virtual worlds instead of physical ones? Scenario
> painted by Lawnmower Man 2 (not a very good movie thought but...)
> whereby he suggested that the virtual world would be the escape hatch
> to a dying world.  Would we eventually have a world functioning only
> as a mean of life support to the human body while the brain is hooked
> up to a virtual world whereby every rule of the physical world can be
> broken.
> 

These issues were raised in the best-selling trilogy by William
Gibson, NEURMANCER, COUNT ZERO, AND MONA LISA OVERDRIVE.  You might
want to check them out.

Bob Jacobson
<bob@worldesign.com>