Interview blog

First of all virtual reality is something that is relatively scary to me, because I think it is something that can easily get out of hand. Virtual reality to me is a combination of philosophy, math, and perceived realities through programmed languages that are distorted into a new kind of reality, virtual reality. I don't truthfully want to see virtual reality as something that is mainstreamed into peoples' everyday lives other than in ways that aren't detrimental to living the way we currently do. I do not believe VR is better than any media we currently have, though is a revolutionary way of doing things.

What Lanier describes seems to be science fiction to me though I do not doubt could one day become a common thing. I would like to not be around for that becoming a common thing, but it's way beyond my control. If VR became as common as television the entire world as we know it would change because reality would not be reality, virtual reality and its distorted ways would become the reality that people perceived. Most of Lanier's comments were interesting and his thoughts very intelligent, but I particularly like how he talked about the reality people show others and what we perceive as being different. That statement was the one that made most clear sense to me, while most of the other things he talked about were over my head.