Slipping out of the gym and standing back to consider the philosophical implications of augmented reality, Japanese net culture expert Toshinao Sasaki has a few things to say.
If you think cultural critics are aghast over the social implications of the "reality" television craze, listen to what camera-wielding purists have to say about the technical quality of some of the video vérité programs now being spewed into the nation's living rooms.
Gibson's next three novels, Virtual Light (1993), Idoru (1997) and All Tomorrow's Parties (1999), form a second trilogy set in a nearer future, with a more overt examination of the social implications of virtual reality, nanotechnology and other phenomena.
And the implications of that reality, as we've depicted in these novels, are breathtaking.
We can then begin to explore the implications of this reality today and for generations yet born.
As an entrepreneur, investor, and rapt observer of the education sector, I remain concerned about the implications of this reality for public education.
Sitting in the sleek, industrial offices of NEW INC while technologists discuss the applications and implications of virtual reality at the New Museum's Versions conference next-door, Zec and Porter discuss the experiences that led to GIANT's inception.
One practical implication of this reality is reflected in the fees we pay for access to alternative investments and hedging strategies, for those of us who use them.
But there is no obvious motive for philosophy to concern itself with definitions that carry no implications about the contents of reality.
By limiting incommensurability to fundamental theories, Feyerabend meant those that have ontological implications; i.e., those that have implications about the very nature of reality.
