What is a game like 'No Man's Sky,' really? A set of symbols that specify a world but do not themselves constitute it. A rich grammar that's inert without the trigger of human attention.
In virtual reality, it's more about capturing and creating worlds that people are inhabiting. You really are a creator in the way the audience lives within the world that you are building.
I'm not so radical about Twitter, but I think it's sometimes dangerous if you think that Twitter is real life.
Society? Can we trust us? Doubt it. We're probably not even real, as was revealed in the popular documentary The Matrix. That bloke next door? Made of pixels. Your co-workers? Pixels. You? One pixel. One measly pixel. You haven't even got shoes, for Christ's sake.
The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not.
I have often felt the worlds of social media and the Internet are like a weird dreamscape. Even physically, when you are looking at your phone, you are out of it.
I don't take the Internet and social media very seriously. I've grown up around social media but to me what happens on the Internet just doesn't feel real.
I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is.
The new media are not ways of relating to us the 'real' world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the old world at will.
I really believe that the virtual world mirrors the physical world.
Cyberspace as a mode of being will never go away. We live in cyberspace.
Within our lifetimes, we will be able to push out enough computational power to simulate reality.
I've always written observations on the world, and now there's two of them. The virtual world is a new thing, and it doesn't really exist, but people are in it a lot.
You can play with the reality and the 3D is a tool to play with it.
When I saw how real virtual reality can be, and that we can replace human vision with virtual vision, this can be the ultimate platform.
If it isn't on Google, it doesn't exist.
I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.
The world throws you out of your body, especially the cyberworld.
We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.
Because what's the point of something virtual if it doesn't end up being real?
I can't imagine that life can be replaced with a computer universe. I can't accept it.
Everything is cross-platform now. That's part of the reality that we live in - a multifaceted, multimedia world - and I'm delighted to be a part of that.
There are enormous dangers in thinking that the world online is the world as it exists, that what you get from your one stroke on the Internet is all there is to know.
In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as part of a research program.
If reality is code, then it can be hacked in some way that we had not suspected before.
