Virtual Reality Norretranders, The User Illusion, 1998
"the simulation of the world is replacing the world. Information is being discarded… Out of the boredom of artificial civilized life, new technologies are being introduced under the banner of virtual reality. One simply replaces the experience of eleven million bits per second from a beautiful forest with a corresponding eleven million bits a second form the same forest -- or from inside a lobster pot, so we can feel what it is like to be a lobster."