3 Essays on Virtual Reality: Overlords, Civilization, and Escape

By Eliott Edge

Categories: Computers & Technology, Politics & Social Sciences

Eliott Edge's 3 Essays on Virtual Reality: Overlords, Civilization, and Escape (2017) argues that virtual reality is far older than the headset. Collecting three essays first written for the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, plus an introduction, Edge treats language, religion, media and the built world as cultural simulations that people live inside. Drawing on simulation theory, Plato's cave and Robert Anton Wilson's idea of reality tunnels, he asks who builds these worlds and whether anyone can step outside them.

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