White's writing for today is basically a question. A questions that has been asked since the time of Edgar Allen Poe. The question "Is what we see as reality really real or is it a dream inside a dream?" Since our technological age's invention of virtual reality and film like Total Recall and The Matrix: can we be certain that what we think of as reality is real? What if what we think is reality is actually some sort of computer generated simulation? He stated that for the writer these questions can make for a good story line or plot.
"For Further Reflection" Continues this idea that since the dawning of the computer age has changed our understanding of reality some may question whether their waking world is real or a dream.
The "Try This" assignment for today:
1. Write a story in which your viewpoint character discovers that what he assumed was the real world was actually a dream world.
2. As a variation of number one, imagine that your viewpoint character is living inside what we readers can see is a cyber-universe, a simulation that, for your character's perspective, is the real world. Imagine that something disastrous happens in this cyber-universe. How will your protagonist escape, if at all?
Again this is an assignment that I will most likely not take on. I do not like sci-fi and in fact have not even seen the movies that White references in today's reading. There might come a time when I decide to try this genre but it will not be anytime soon if my movie or television viewing, or my reading are any indication.
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