Speakers speculated on topics ranging from virtual realities, cybernetics, and what post-carbon life would be like for mankind.

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Like many sci-fi visionaries, he has watched where the culture was going and pursued its logical ends, including virtual realities and body modification (notably in "eXistenZ").

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It combines all the "realities" into one: physical, virtual and augmented (reality superimposed with sound or graphics).

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