This essayist suggested that society should be studied as a "mega-machine" that produces phantasmagoria by proposing a study of virtual reality that he called "phantomology."
This essayist suggested that society should be studied as a "mega-machine" that produces phantasmagoria by proposing a study of virtual reality that he called "phantomology." A story by this author opens by describing three kinds of dragons: "the mythical, the chemical and thepurely hypothetical," and follows the Great Cerebron of Umptor, who invents a "probability amplifier" to create a dragon. This author created a protagonist who visits Costa Rica with Professor Tarangtoga during the title event and has his mind transferred to an obese man before he is put in stasis and wakes up in 2038. This author of Summa Technologicae wrote about the robotic engineers Trurl and Klapaucius in The Cyberiad, while Ijon Tichy appears in his The Futurological Congress. Kris Kelvin is on a research station that communicates with a sentient ocean in a novel by, for 10 points, what author of Solaris?
This essayist suggested that society should be studied as a "mega-machine" that produces phantasmagoria by proposing a study of virtual reality that he called "phantomology."
Stanislaw Lem