VF2011
18-19 June 2011
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Pat Cadigan
With themes of virtual reality and technological development being key to her science fiction writing, Pat Cadigan is all to familiar with our reliance on technology and our fear of missing out on the next big thing.
Mark Fisher
Mark Fisher's talk 'No Time' looks back on the original Virtual Futures conferences and draws conclusions on the ongoing cultural effects of technology.
Andy Miah
Prof Miah worries that we are becoming too immersed in technology, adversely affecting our life outside it, but also believes the idea is that everyone is 'obsessed' with technology is false. Is the future virtual?
Dan O'Hara
Virtual Futures returned to the University of Warwick this year after fifteen years away. But what was the academic basis for the original conferences back in '94 '95 and '96? Here, Dan O 'Hara, one of the key original organisers of the event explains more.