For the time being, I will write out the questions I had for one Lev Manovich in response to “The Forms”

On page 215, Manovich writes that within computer culture “the user navigates through a virtual space both to work and play, whether analyzing scientific data or killing enemies in Quake”. While I can understand the main point behind this, my first reaction was – that doesn’t exactly add up. In games, there is a created “world” and sphere that is virtual and navigable – with databases and scientific information, I get the vibe that there is not so much of a difference between the virtual experience and the real experience of looking at pure information. I’d think the graphs tables and such would be just on a screen as opposed to within a book – and while that is indeed different in many wanys, it didn’t seem so comparable to computer game worlds, personally.