This text slightly relates to last weeks readings about the computer and databases but this text by Aden Evans is a bit more complicating. I am having difficulty following what he is talking about with web 1.0 to 2.0, therefore it is hard for me to picture what he is discussing about visually. When he talks about virtual reality, it is unclear because I have read Baudrillard's text on virtual reality and cyberspace where he explains a different version of VR and its other facets. Thus, what exactly does he mean by VR?
If I am understanding correctly this text, he wants to erase the gap separating the user and the computer. He plunges into this historical methodology by examining web 2.0 in terms of both the medial and the ways that it generates a different relation to mediation. Like many new media technical dreams, his idea of web 2.0 evokes a desire for immediacy. Also, the Web then "becomes a reflexive nest of perspectives on itself". So far, this is the most I have gotten out of the understanding of this text. I would of liked it if he would of explained more in detail what he meant by dream of the digital or technical dreams, is it how people want to interact with the Web? Nonetheless, this was still an interesting text to read but I wish I would of understood it better.
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