Unseen World

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Beginning Research

Visual Language Notes/Ideas While Reading

• daughter learning about her father’s past
• 1980s era Boston (for fashion and tech)
• journey into virtual universe
• focus on time — in the chapter names
• light refraction***- pg 14
• distant — “in a fog” — pg 17
• computer science
• computer relic — pg 39 — the big kind that takes up a whole room
• artificial intelligence and natural language processing
• Alzheimers Disease — show grey fog that rolls over one’s memory — pg 93
• loss of memory and self
• fully immersive alternate reality — pg 179
• ^ VR headsets, “lucid dreaming,” virtual city called Alterra — pg 181
• “overtaking of his brain” — pg 197
• the dictionary where she stores evidence — pg 198 (ties to language acquisition)
• a “quest to learn the truth” — pg 200
• old photographs
• code and encryption
• different time periods: 1910s, 50s/60s, 80s, 2000s
• chatting with a bot — pg 359
• “unseen world” — in the form of a stack of papers in David’s office
• uncoding secrets — pg 370?
• beatnik style
• floppy disk — pg 414
• paragraph about VR — pg 422 — “present but undiscovered”
• the UW (Unseen World) is their form of Virtual Reality