The unsafe dream of cybernetic polices
Currently VR is being utilized to train police worldwide. Credit: VirTra
This short article was initially included on MIT Press Reader.
This short article is adjusted from Marcus Carter and Ben Egliston's book "Fantasies of Virtual Reality."
The political and cultural theorist Paul Virilio notoriously composed that we reside in a state of long-term (or "pure") war. By this, he implied that there is an increasing "perversion" of any specific difference in between civilian and military organizations and, by extension, civilian and military life. According to Virilio, after the Second World War, Western economies and societies were completely rearranged to support military power. The focus moved from battleground str...