Reading in the section on the virtual self, I was very interested in the degrees of freedom. I had never thought about the 6 degrees of freedom that you have with a video camera even though I have used a camera for Skype. When I was in Australia I used my ISight on Skype to talk to my family and it was funny to look at yourself and adjust the angles at which you were viewed. But was even more interesting to me was the section that talked about exploration [pg.244] because I remember the first time I used Google Earth. How amazing is it that I can type in the address of where I stayed when I studied abroad in Australia and instantly the world spins and I can visually see where I lived for 6 months. And not just on the map that I used to see in geography in the 8th grade that was just different colors, but now it is a real picture and I can see the house I lived in.
"To occupy multiple points of view...becomes a new positive good and perhaps the major freedom that major freedom that our culture can now offer." [245]
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