Virtual reality produced by electronic techniques is but the latest sophistication of a long history of reality representations.
Tomás Maldonado, eminent theorist in film aesthetics, design and architecture, places new expressive technologies in the same vein with medieval painting, the discovery of perspective in the birth of photography and cinema.
Placing the steps of evolution in their respective contexts, the author notes that we cannot yet calmly assess the scope and influence of advanced audiovisual technologies on our culture.