[SIGCIS-Members] Virtuality versus transprency -- trying to locate a quote about the difference

[Anker Helms Jørgensen]

Hi Tom

I couldn’t resist trying to trace the origin of this geat qote. I guess in vain, but the text “Sensing the virtual, building the insensible” by Brian Massumi at
http://brianmassumi.com/textes/Sensing%20the%20Virtual.pdf
is kinda close. The year of publication is actually 1998. Perhaps the references may prove helpful??

It appeared as the second hit at
http://scholar.google.dk/scholar?start=10&q=+virtual++really+transparent+&hl=da&as_sdt=0,5

Best - Anker

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On 30 Oct 2014, at 00:00, Thomas Haigh <thaigh at computer.org<mailto:thaigh at computer.org>> wrote:

Hello SIGCIS,

I am trying to locate a quote I remember reading circa 1998. It is something along the lines of “Something virtual isn’t really there but looks as if it is. Something transparent is really there but looks as if it isn’t.” That is of course the computer science sense of transparency as making the work of software invisible a user or process – for example how the network stack shields applications from whatever network media the data is travelling over to present the illusion of a connection.

Google is not helping me. Does anybody know the source and correct wording?

Thanks,

Tom
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