{"id":196,"date":"2016-09-23T15:26:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T07:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/?p=196"},"modified":"2016-09-30T01:18:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T17:18:36","slug":"virtual-reality-a-k-a-real-virtuality-next-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/virtual-reality-a-k-a-real-virtuality-next-door\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Reality (a.k.a Real Virtuality)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/sea-cable-connection_large2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-967\" src=\"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/sea-cable-connection_large2-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"sea-cable-connection_large2\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/sea-cable-connection_large2-300x295.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/sea-cable-connection_large2-768x756.jpg 768w, http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/sea-cable-connection_large2-1024x1008.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/sea-cable-connection_large2-210x207.jpg 210w, http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/sea-cable-connection_large2.jpg 1120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power.&#8221; &#8211; Robert Greene<\/p>\n<p>Most use the Internet, but few understands its physical existence. They say they can know everything from <em>IT<\/em>, but\u00a0little\u00a0knows anything about <i>IT<\/i>. And that most of it is being governed or owned by somewhere or someone. In the near anarchist\u00a0future, 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\u00a0our physical city?<\/p>\n<p>Ignorance is not bliss &#8211; oblivion is.<\/p>\n<p>Fig 1. Map of the ocean-deep fibre optic cables (Author, 2016. Data source:\u00a0Nicolas Rapp, 2011.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power.&#8221; &#8211; Robert Greene Most use the Internet, but few understands its physical existence. They say they can know everything from IT, but\u00a0little\u00a0knows anything<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[137,139,138,303,140],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":969,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}