From: Marc Nicholas Subject: Re: CULTURE: The Fundamentalist Christians discover VR Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 19:35:43 GMT Message-ID: Organization: RedNet - The Mac Networking People >cyberoid@u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson) writes: > >> The voluble Dr. Dobson exclaimed that >>what he wanted was "the potential for a Christian to learn the Bible >>by walking the dusty streets of Jerusalem with Christ." > >See "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick. This >book was "adapted" into the move Blade Runner. One of the things they >left out was the virtual religious martyrdom communal experience box >on top of your TV. Or you could read Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson where Mona is walking in Florida and discovers a preacher (evangelist?) near a market using a big multimedia set-up!!! Marc :*)