The recent development of live-cams on the Internet [contributes] to the inversion of the usual conceptions of inside and outside. Finally, this generalized visualization is the defining aspect of what is generally known today as virtualization. As much-vaunted ‘virtual reality’ is not so much a navigation through the cyberspace of the networks. It is, first and foremost, the amplification of the optical density of the appearances of the real world.
Paul Virilio, The Information Bomb, 2000. 14. (via jenlindblad)