Times are changing and so media in all forms including the physical and the theory-people have become immersed in there in own media bubble, be it in the movies, television,computer and now even phones-the magic book is a perfect sample of the illusion of immersion that we have given ourselves. We look back on a the "old tech"of the Book and scoff but things are really no different except that individuals have become far more removed.
Immersion depends upon transparency, so the strategy of hypermediation, the reflective, the mirror, works against the illusion of immersion.
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