Others objected to this. Turkle uses transparency and opacity to make points about modernism vs. postmodernism. Modernism being the culture of calculation, canalization, and rules. Postmodernism is surface over depth, simulation over the real, play over seriousness. Now, with the introduction of Microsoft Windows in 1985, the modern and postmodern aesthetics of computing became curiously entwined, using the MS-DOS operating system some feel of the Mac interface.
Virtual reality is simulated reality.
Simulated by rapidly updating images for your eyes so that when you move your head, you feel like you are making the changes you are seeing. The idea of VR is the sense of being somewhere when you re not, or making your eye believe you are somewhere else. By mimicking these cues, the eye could be fooled. In summary, the internet relates to so many aspects of life as we know it today, and will in the future change so many that we take for granted now, that it truly opens our eyes to our past and future. It would have been impossible for me to retrace all the interesting and profound thought-provoking ideas covered in this class this semester, and I am in no way trying to.