Virtual Reality (a.k.a Real Virtuality)

“Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power.” – Robert Greene

Most use the Internet, but few understands its physical existence. They say they can know everything from IT, but little knows anything about IT. And that most of it is being governed or owned by somewhere or someone. In the near anarchist future, the Internet(s) would be the government, the dictator. Data centres are military bases. When everything is turning virtual, will the physical still have leverage on things? Would there be a new relationship with our physical city?

Ignorance is not bliss – oblivion is.

Fig 1. Map of the ocean-deep fibre optic cables (Author, 2016. Data source: Nicolas Rapp, 2011.)