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--- The Myth and Aestheticism of New Bodies5/2

Ito: You once said that the important thing is to think about what the Internet cannot do. Instead of considering things one-sidedly, complex things must be approached in a complex way; the basic ways in which we see the world will, in the next century, be challenged from a variety of angles. The Internet, media technology, information issues all might look transitory if we take a long view (as we proposed ten years ago), or these things might be combined in different ways, for example the Internet could be combined with video to create a new dimension, or networked with other technologies and lead to something else Ñ I think that now, we are entering a major period of exploration in that regard. And within the context of such exploration, people may once again try to enter the realm of goods (objects) or of the human body, and in fact I believe we are seeing a desire for such a perspective. Ueshima: Nicholas Negroponte was already saying back in the 1980s that


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