The pulp magazine reporter, on the other hand, must tell a plausible story and keep it lurid enough to grab our imagination. To the computer-impaired, pedophilia might serve as a plausible explanation why anyone would sit for hours in front of a computer screen. The Internet-user, on the other hand, may believe that rock videos are a more reliable guide to reality than Time magazine. And even if he were actually interested in porn, he might find life easier by going to the local video store where a single video tape could store as much graphical inforation as could be stored on 2000 digital compact disks. Another type of virtual reality is found in the banking world.
Money is data stored in a computer.
All that is necessary is that one properly emulate the reality that is important to the bank computer. If you include all the right digital indicators that make it plausible to the computer that you are the authorized transfer person for, say, the account owned by C. Jefferson, the computer will believe you. Foster was just one of the first of scores of high level U.S. political figures to thus have their secret Swiss accounts looted of illicit funds . . . . Jim Norman doesn't say. Missile launches take place in a virtual reality.