- Cover
- Table of Contention
- Rocking in the Fake World
- Internet Commandments
- Thou shalt not flaunt thy ignorance
- Thou shalt not be pedantic
- Thou shalt not be a know-it-all
- Thou shalt not flaunt thy wealth
- Thou shalt not flaunt thy influence
- Thou shalt not redact emails
- Thou shalt update away messages
- Thou shalt be interesting
- Thou shalt subdivide thy people
- Thou shalt respect the dead
- Facebook: Changing the Faces of Two Generations
- Gamers Unplugged
- Interactive: Internet Addiction
- ipodman Goes to Work
- Multitasking: A Divided Mind
- The Case Against Multitasking
- Multitasking Success
- The Divided Brain and the Future
- Data Overload, Now in 3D
- Electronic Navigation: Lost at Sea
- WiiHurts!
- Experience Virtual Medicine
- Flying the Coop: How I Escaped Farmville
- James Cow Polk: A Meditation on Modern Cowfolk
- Bot/Not?
- Faking it in Nature
- Reading’s Evolution
- About
Welcome to
Fakeality Webmagazine
Fake is the new reality. If you're reading this, you're part of it.
Explore technology's new frontier in this web magazine produced by the 2011 graduate class of Boston University's Science and Medical Journalism program.
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Electronic Navigation: Lost at Sea
More and more people rely on their GPS's to get from point A to B, even at sea. Learn how relying on a GPS can be dangerous, particularly for boaters.
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Experience Virtual Medicine
Psychologists originally turned to virtual reality to help their patients overcome phobias. Now, these technologies are becoming the new reality on medical wards.
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Bot/Not?
Are you sure that the person you're speaking to online is a person? It could have been a chatbot trained to speak like a fairly convincing, if sometimes a little odd, human.
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A: When do you think artificial intelligence will replace lawyers?
B: Did you not hear? That's already happened.
A: No I did not hear that has happened.
B: At least in Mexico.
A: I do not understand that allusion.
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Rocking in the Fake World
Games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero continue to challenge what counts as real musical performance. While the instruments aren’t real, aspiring guitar gods may find themselves looking at music in a new way.
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Faking it in Nature
Nature on TV is laden with fast-paced action and stunning vistas. How do these skewed depictions affect our relationship with real nature?
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iPodman Goes to Work
An iPod can turn life into a movie by providing a soundtrack. But what happens when that movie becomes a little too real?
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Flying the Coop
As Farmville continues to grow in popularity, it raises new questions about gaming addiction and excess. Here, an ex-player examines the real tensions on virtual farms.
