Sub Urb
Posted in Mondo 2000, Neuromancer, Proust, Second Life, Toyota, Tron, detail, simulation, virtual reality on Dec 4th, 2007
This YouTube film, foregrounded courtesy of Things Magazine, features a slightly overlong tour of the World’s Largest Driving Simulator, built by Toyota. Like the little sweet cake that precipitated seven volumes of Proustian reminiscence, this promotional item provokes memories of the early days of cyberspace when, post-Neuromancer, the technophilic glossy magazine Mondo 2000 slid perfect-bound [...]