Category: Paul Virilio
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Alan N. Shapiro racconta “Star Trek” (RAI4 Italian TV interview)
This is the transcript of an interview about Star Trek which I did on Italian TV (RAI4) a few years ago. If I can find the time, I will translate it soon into English. There exist also transcripts of interviews which I did on Italian TV about Lost and The Prisoner. Poliedrico studioso di tecnologia,…
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The Car of the Future, by Alan N. Shapiro and Alan Cholodenko
co-author: Alan Cholodenko In November 2008, Alan N. Shapiro was invited by Volkswagen in Wolfsburg, Germany to speak about his ideas about “the car of the future.” He spoke in front of an audience of people from the Human-Machine Interface Dept. and and the Infotainment Dept. This text was written as an accompaniment to that…
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The Car of the Future is a Virtual Reality Game Platform
Paul Virilio is a French theorist of technology whose work has focused on architecture, art, transportation, war, urban planning, and the cinema. Virilio’s central concept is speed. He is also a theorist of accidents and crashes.