«Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts… A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding…»
― William Gibson, Neuromancer
«Gaming is the most dynamic and exciting category in entertainment across all platforms today and will play a key role in the development of metaverse platforms», said Satya Nadella, chairman and CEO, Microsoft. «We’re investing deeply in world-class content, community and the cloud to usher in a new era of gaming that puts players and creators first and makes gaming safe, inclusive and accessible to all».
Hegel nota in un passo delle sue opere che tutti i grandi fatti e i grandi personaggi della storia universale si presentano, per così dire, due volte. Ha dimenticato di aggiungere la prima volta come tragedia, la seconda volta come farsa.
incipit de «Il 18 Brumaio di Luigi Bonaparte», Karl Marx, 1869
Movies have lost a lot by this new trend towards documentary realism at the sacrifice of fantasy. After all, drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Alfred Hitchcock, 1956
A crowd of shadowy faces from the mirrors
That line these walls are watching me.
I dare not
Lift up the lid.
The Masque of Pandora – VII. The House of Epimetheus (1875) – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
a torto credi di star in pace frammezzo a popoli prepotenti e forti
[inter impotentes et validos falso quiescat]
Tacito «Germania»
Rimaneva ancora almeno l’ombra di una libertà che stava per morire.
[Manebant etiam tum vestigia morientis libertatis]
Tacito «Annali»