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<div>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</div>
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<span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">is kinda close. </span>The year of publication is actually 1998. Perhaps the references may prove helpful??</div>
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<span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">It appeared as the second hit at</span></div>
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<a href="http://scholar.google.dk/scholar?start=10&q=+virtual++really+transparent+&hl=da&as_sdt=0,5">http://scholar.google.dk/scholar?start=10&q=+virtual++really+transparent+&hl=da&as_sdt=0,5</a></div>
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<div style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;">Best - Anker</div>
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<span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Anker Helms Jorgensen</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
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<a href="http://ankervejleder.wordpress.com/" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">http://ankervejleder.wordpress.com</a></div>
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<a href="http://ankervejleder.wordpress.com/" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">http://ankervejleder.wordpress.com/materialer</a><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Associate Professor, PhD</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">IT University of Copenhagen</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Rued Langgaardsvej 7</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">DK-2300 Copenhagen S Denmark</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<a href="mailto:anker@itu.dk" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">anker@itu.dk</a><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">+45 72 18 50 00</span></div>
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<span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Room 3E10</span></div>
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<div>On 30 Oct 2014, at 00:00, Thomas Haigh <<a href="mailto:thaigh@computer.org">thaigh@computer.org</a>> wrote:</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello SIGCIS,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Google is not helping me. Does anybody know the source and correct wording?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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