- information being left out of articles
- made up/false stories
- anybody can be anyone they want on wikipedia
- how do we know the truth?
- conjured up conspiracy theories
- at what point does a theory become the truth?
Authors on Wikipedia base themselves around the open admission of "I don't know what I'm talking about and I'm unsure, but here's a link to something that might be useful to you"
"what is real? how do you define real? if you're talking about your senses, what you feel, taste, smell or see, than all you're talking about are electrical signals interpreted by your brain." - Morpheus. (The Matrix)
What has become of our 'reality'? And what has become of our perception of reality? Is it true? Is it false? With all the surrounding replicas of reality, plus the new technologies we have become familiar with, how do we know what is real?
virtual reality. the goggles, the gloves and the vests. when you become engaged in this world of virtual gaming, do you realize you are battling against robots? a machine. something that is not real. How does this affect you?
Readings
Jorge Luis Borges, Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.
- Jorge and Casares were having dinner one night and came to the conclusion that mirrors have something monstrous about them especially in the late hours of the night.
- Casares recalles that one of the heresiarchs of 'Uqbar' had declared that mirrors and copulation are abominable, because they increase the number of men.
- Jorge asked Casares of the origin of his statement, he replied that it was in the Anglo-American cyclopaedia's article on Uqbar.
- So they looked it up in the Anglo American cyclopaedia's last pages of Volume XLVI and the first few pages of Volume XLVII. they found 'Upsala' and 'Ural'. No Uqbar.
- They found it the next day. The first encyclopedia they looked at had 917 pages, but the second one they found had 920 pages.
- The extra 4 pages containing UQBAR!
- Both encyclopedias were reprints of the tenth Encyclopedia of Britannica.
"Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply and disseminate that universe"
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Essay Ideas!
- Music industry and the internet
- Are we becoming a virtual youth?
- The internet made me famous!
- Computer games and children
- 24 hour computer game cafes
- Networking over the internet, are we becoming cyberholics? Can we live without myspace, bebo, facebook, msn etc etc.
- iPod, therefore I am.
- Is cyberlife better than real life?
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