Access Grid and Loosing Touch
I have noticed much discussion about the Access Grid amongst (academic) artists and it seems that many proponents of this have lost touch with society and contemporary media. While the Access Grid is a great test bed, there are already so many active testbeds in society and culture that can be actually practical and useful to many people (and not just those with select enough access to the access grid — primarily academics). Anyhow, I’m primarily reacting to yet again seeing another promotion of artists using this for creating the dream of virtual reality. C’mon video games have replaced that old VR stuff…
