Five Rules of Virtuality
Steve Woolgar · 2002
Abstract We are continuing to witness the burgeoning growth of new electronic informa tion and communications technologies (ICTs). These include interactive and multimedia communications, Internet and World Wide Web, video conferen cing, virtual realities, computer-aided design, the information superhighway, and the technologies of electronic surveillance and consumer profiling. These new electronic technologies have been widely regarded as the impetus for radical changes. All these technologies are set to modify the nature and experience of interpersonal relations and communications across a vast range of human activities.