{"id":6183,"date":"2012-04-23T10:42:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T04:47:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-23T14:33:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T08:33:10","slug":"needs_are_neither_fixed_nor_ab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/needs_are_neither_fixed_nor_ab\/","title":{"rendered":"Needs are neither fixed nor absolute."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Instead they are fluid and reflexive.<\/strong> The father of virtual reality, Jaron Lanier, claims that <span class=\"nr-emphasis-less\">his passion for inventing VR systems came from a long-frustrated urge to play &#8220;air guitar&#8221;<\/span>&#8211;to be able to wave his arms and have music emanate from his motions. Anyone with access to a VR arcade can now have that urge satisfied, but it is a want that most people would have never recognized until they immersed themselves into virtual reality gear. It was certainly not a primary want that Plato would have listed.<\/p>\n<p>At one time a useful distinction was made in economics between <span class=\"nr-highlight\">&#8220;primary&#8221; needs such as food and clothing<\/span>, and <span class=\"nr-highlight\">all other wants and preferences, which were termed &#8220;luxuries.&#8221;<\/span> Advertising is undoubtedly guilty, as critics charge, of creating desires. At first these manufactured desires were for luxuries. But the reach of technology is deep. <span class=\"nr-emphasis\">Sophisticated media technology first creates desires for luxuries; then technology transforms those luxuries into primary necessities.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead they are fluid and reflexive. The father of virtual reality, Jaron Lanier, claims that his passion for inventing VR systems came from a long-frustrated urge to play &#8220;air guitar&#8221;&#8211;to be able to wave his arms and have music emanate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/needs_are_neither_fixed_nor_ab\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"1","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[206],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}