Mystifying aura of virtual replacements can hide the fact that they usually fall far short of the real experience
- Real World Chat Room actually existed long before electricity -"Dreamless live" at
NMUF 2000 or OFFF Barcelona - and what of the Coney Island Haunted House effect - what makes interactive physical media any better than BOO!
"He means to say that those who cultivate competence in the use of a new technology become an elite group that are granted undeserved authority and prestige by those who have no such competence"
-p. 9 Technopoly, by Neil Postman: The Judgement of Thamus