Hamlet on the holodeck
by Janet Horowitz Murray · first published 1997
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Can we imagine a world in which Homer's lyre and Gutenberg's press have given way to virtual reality environments like the Star Trek holodeck? Murray sees the harbingers of such a world in the fiction of Borges and Calvino, movies like Groundhog Day, and the videogames and Web sites of the 1990s. Where is our map for this new frontier, and what can we hope to find in it? What will it be like to step into our own stories for the first time, to change our vantage point at will, to construct our own worlds or change the outcome of a compelling adventure, be it a murder mystery or a torrid romanc
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If anyone is interested in a past perspective on this, I'd read Hamlet on the Holodeck. Seminal work that really lays out what digital narrative is and wants to be. That is what we all want, after all: a Holodeck. Real life without the danger or expense. It would be amazing, and I truly…
on “Tried Vision Pro. Here's what I thought” ↗I have a text book called Hamlet on the Holodeck about how the machines could take imagination to greater heights. Now it’s all about dopamine. Lower gutters. Humans never change so I have hope things will correct and we dream again.
on “When the Internet Was a Place” ↗