Davis Ch. 7 - 8

Davis Chapter 7-8
Maddie Baum

Something that I found to be incredibly interesting in this reading assignment was how Davis discussed the art of rhetoric. He described this as how the memory palaces of what a few Roman writers who discussed technical descriptions are a huge component of the rhetoric of technical descriptions. "Memory palaces could be based on real spaces or imaginary ones; some believed the best palaces combined the two modes, so that simulations of actual buildings were infused with impossible properties" (198). Why I find this to be such a grasping topic is because of how it emphasizes the wide variety of possibility when discussing the rhetoric of technical description. The way that Davis discusses the importance of memory and the art of cyberspace perfectly coincides with one another, highlighting how they both have very similar concepts to them.

This also relates to Davis' discussion on the relationship between the dream world and the virtual game world. Davis discusses how virtual reality in many cases becomes a place where people can represent their creativity and imaginary process in the game world. This is a very interesting concept; I am not typically familiar with the gaming world, but when Davis discussed the evolution of video games and how they influenced individual games and the improvement of how hackers I was very intrigued. It is amazing how the evolution of gaming has opened the doors for improvements in coding and creativity in not only the gaming world, but the computing world as well. It will be amazing to see the revolutionary movements that we make, especially over the next decade or two in our technology. There will only be improvements from here on out.