This essay will argue that virtual worlds are becoming very realistic in nature. The virtual worlds represented in The Matrix, Snow Crash, and “Trouble and Her Friends” are realistic in nature and show that the stereotypes of the real world are d…
In “A Real Girl” by Shariann Lewitt, a virtual woman is depicted in the form of an AI, or artificial intelligence. This woman is presented as a supercomputer with no real body. Instead, she is “four pounds of neural computing circuitry in a b…
1. The essay topic that interested me the most is number 6, the one about the differing representations of Reality and the Metaverse in Snow Crash. I would like to write about this topic because there are a lot of interesting differences and similariti…
One of the major themes in Neal Stephenson’s novel, Snow Crash, is the nature of humanity. In the novel, there exists two different societies, one real and one virtual. In the Metaverse, the virtual world, the human controls an avatar. The huma…
In Sherry Turkle’s latest Ted Talk, she describes how technology is taking place of true, meaningful human interactions. She mentions how she participated in a Ted Talk a few years ago, and her daughter gave her a hug for good luck. Before her sh…