a ôhistorically specific constructionö that is both psychological and a subjective point-of-view that advocates the capacity of ôpowerful technologies.ö This construct and mind-set is one that evolved in the wake of WWII, on in which, says Hayles (1), ôThe perception facilitates the development of the technologies, and the technologies reinforce the perception.ö The prior emergence of materiality and information as separate concepts was not arbitrary either but rather the result of existing technologies and accepted mind-sets or paradigms that evolved as technology progressed.
Ong (21) suggests that ôPlatoÆs condemnation of writingö is quite comparable to contemporary criticsÆ views of virtuality or virtual literature. PlatoÆs criticisms included the belief that something artificial or foreign to human life could only corrupt and the belief that nothing outside the mind can recreate only what is in the mind (Ong 21). Yet this distinct separation of internal and external (or reality and mind) is not proven tru
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