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She
also notices that the other puppets in the plaza are
aware of her presence, therefore if she waves at one
of them they may wave back, and these other puppet people
in the plaza are also interacting with the ghost screens
that drift near them. The images that are being displayed
on the wisps of smoke, on the ghost screens, appear
to be samples from old movies, and then also selections
from television shows, still photos graphs, and other
images gathered from a variety of cultures.
If the participant watches these
images long enough she will realize that they are being
collected on the fly from Internet traffic from around
the globe, with a collection point for an hour centered
over Russia, for example, then for another hour centered
over France, then Brazil, then South Africa, then Canada,
and so on.
Finally, the participant notices that she can manipulate
the wisps of smoke into somewhat stable shapes that
linger in the virtual air, allowing her to sculpt the
smoke into a design that is continually displaying a
stream of images, as if she is building a three dimensional
screen of Internet imagery.
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