Quotes About Virtual

Whether it is a simulated experience or a dream, the information that exists is all real... and an illusion at the same time.

New media provides an addictive level of brain stimulus. It kills time for the bored. It makes the unimportant seem important and connects individuals into communities that are very real.

If we all shift to the simulacrum, then the simulacrum, for all practical purposes, becomes the real.

He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world.

As soon as anyone on Earth could see and talk to anyone else by pressing a button, most of the need for cities vanished.

My phone is my people. It's my friends. It's my family. It's my work. It's my world. It's everything. I feel like someone's wrenched my life support system away from me.

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

What's the point of something virtual if it doesn't end up being real?

Instead, there has emerged a new jihadi organization, dispersed and decentralized, which draws its inspiration from al-Qa'ida and its glorious raids. This rising threat, truly a global jihad in the making, is potentially deadlier than bin Laden's secret army; it exists wherever there are angry Muslims, and it feeds on the "virtual jihad," what some term

As redes operacionais causam um grande mal por serem suficientemente parecidas com comunidades reais para criar a expectativa de que serão capazes de lidar com as necessidades sociais e psicológicas dos seus membros.

People are not more connected, despite the billions in ads from the IT companies. Why call it community? It's just technology. The machines are connected, not the people.

These days even reality has to look artificial.

Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.

Millennials grew up realizing that they can get the job done without having to go to the office.

I don't have anyone to be reunited with. My whole reception class is on Facebook.

There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'

I come from a background of hiding everything behind a computer.

The creation of virtual worlds had taken the place of advances in the physical world. "You can say the whole Internet has something very escapist to it

I'm a virtual worker. I'm not tied to an office.

When you play a videogame, you could be a completely different person than you are in the real world, certain aspects of the way your brain works can be leveraged for something you could never do in the real world.

As the world becomes a more digital place, we cannot forget about the human connection.

Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn't like it, it is it.

There is no time and space in the digital world. People chat and collaborate through social networks. Cultural icons garner millions of fans online in locations they have often never been themselves. The boundary between public and private life is now everyone's business.

In the world of screens, we're all tired of screens. That's why I think that live events have become so popular.