Cohen The Internet lacks the specific shock of being in the presence of somebody else or of a particular work of art. I think that the Internet is a parallel and separate thing. It s about education and getting information. It lacks that uniqueness. When you travel everything is absolutely unique.
Virtual reality makes a duplicate experience for everyone to share.
When traveling, every moment is unique for everybody. Packaged travel junkets are like the Internet an attempt to standardize travel. And so is McDonald s. It s the end of uniqueness. It s made food into a homogenized food, turned it into a transnationally quantifiable entity.