Response to Bolter Questions

From Crystal's blog:
1. In the reading, hypermedia and transparent media both desire to get past the limits of representation and to achieve the real. Yet, all media is remediation. Do you think that remediation detracts from the ability to achieve reality?

My response:
This brings up an interesting question concerning what we perceive as reality. Really, in recreating experience, there is no other option but to resort to remediation, but in some senses maybe remediation can begin by simply emulating reality and end with a new type of reality. To quickly answer the question, it is the only way that we can achieve reality without true experience, even though experiencing something that is remediated is in itself a real experience. If remediation eventually creates something similar enough to what we now perceive as reality, then there would essentially be no need to say one was more real, only to differentiate between the two as maybe separate, and equally legitimate, realities.