nettime: The Poetics of Augmented Space

(learning from prada), Nettime discussion on Lev Manovich's text.<a name="more"></a><br>
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"The 1990s were about the virtual. We were fascinated by new virtual spaces
made possible by computer technologies. The images of an escape into a
virtual space that leaves the physical space useless and of cyberspace ­ a
virtual world that exists in parallel to our world ­ dominated the decade.
It started with the media obsession with Virtual Reality (VR). In the middle
of the decade graphical browsers for World Wide Web made cyberspace a
reality for millions of users. During the second part of the 1990s yet
another virtual phenomenon ­ dot coms ­ rose to prominence, only to be
crashed by the real world laws of economics. By the end of the decade, the
daily dose of cyberspace ­ using Internet to make plane reservations, to
check email using Hotmail account, or to download MP3 files ­ became such a
norm that the original wonder of cyberspace so present in the early
cyberpunk fiction of the 1980s and still evident in the original manifestos
of VRML evangelists of the early 1990s was almost completely lost. The
virtual became domesticated: filled with advertisements, controlled by big
brands, and rendered harmless. In short, to use the expression of Norman
Klein, it became an ³electronic suburb.²"<br>
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