The final slide I want to show is a piece I have designed in response to Stewart Brand's challenge to me to come up with a sculpture expressing the idea of time. It is an Angel standing on top of a Vortex -- the storm of progress -- the Black Hole of the Singularity -- having passed through it. The Angel is encased in a bell jar because she radiates an electrical plasma.

What does it mean to have infinite technology? Given that we use technology to augment our bodies, to amplify our strength, to broaden our senses and to sharpen our reasoning, infinite technology means we will have created the means to know all that can be known and to control all that can be controlled.

In Conclusion, I want to say the following: That Visual Computing and Virtual Reality are forms of communication. Communication of abstraction from mind-to-mind primarily through the eyes.

Computer-generated sculpture is abstract communication of a Corporeal nature.

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