De la realidad virtual a la aumentada

El Guardian tiene este artículo sobre el último libro de William Mitchell, director de la escuela de arquitectura del MIT y autor de, entre otros, E-topia. Su nuevo libro se llama Me++ : The Cyborg Self and the Networked City, y de él se nos cuenta esto:

Me++ describes the move from virtual reality - the old 90s idea of the net as a separate, alternative realm - to "augmented reality" (AR), in which ubiquitous computing and mobile wireless networks are used to reconnect us to the real world.

Mitchell muses on how AR will change our sense of our selves. Me++ is "a play on C++, the popular programming language. Among programmers, + means incremented or extended, so Me++ suggests the computationally extended self." He suggests we should no longer think of ourselves as "fixed, discrete individuals", but as nodes in a network. "I am part of the networks and the networks are part of me. I am visible to Google. I link, therefore I am."