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10 and-take of applied experience. Both Heidegger's Lichtung and Wittgenstein's Lebensform point to the need for a repeated re-grounding of ideals in the grit of human activity where things are "de- fined" more by existential practice than by the im- aginings of a disengaged speculative mind. The normalization of technology, its "street use," sug- gests that, rather than construct theories about virtuality, it is more fruitful to attend to the many very particular practices that currently infiltrate everyday activities. Contemporary life is replete with virtuality in different shapes and forms, and there is little need to construct a special model to understand virtuality. The "Street" continues to surprise, delight, and refute any and all ideas of what virtual reality is or can be. The term “virtual” belongs to the heyday of a creative digitization that will soon look and sound quaint. The normali- zation of technology is the other side of Wittgen- stein's motto to the Philosophical Investigations: "Progress always seems larger than it really is." A careful look at past speculation can help adjust the illusions that appear in the rear-view mirror as the drive to progress steers ever forward. References and Further Reading Barfield, Woodrow, and Thomas A. Furness, eds. 1995. Virtual Environments and Advanced Inter- face Design . New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press. Benedikt, Michael L., ed. 1991. Cyberspace: First Steps . Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. Bracken, Cheryl Campanella, and Paul D. Skalsi, eds. 2010. Immersed in Media: Telepresence in Everyday Life . New York & Abingdon, Oxon: Tay- lor & Francis. Burdea, Grigore, and Philippe Coiffet, eds. 2003. Virtual Reality Technology , 2nd ed. New Jer- sey: John Wiley & Sons. Cahill, Kevin. 2006. "The Concept of Progress in Wittgenstein's Thought." The Review of Metaphysics 60: 71-100. Coyne, Richard. 2001. Technoromanticism: Digital Narrative, Holism, and the Romance of the Real . Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Ellis, Stephen R., Mary K. Kaiser, and Arthur C. Grunwald, eds. 1991. Pictorial Communication in Virtual and Real Environments . New York and Lon- don: Taylor & Francis. Gibson, William. June 15, 1989. "Rocket Ra- dio." Rolling Stone . Hayles, Katherine. 1999. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Heim, Michael. 1999 [1987]). Electric Lan- guage: A Philosophy Study of Word Processing . New Haven: Yale University Press. Heim, Michael. 1993. The Metaphysics of Vir- tual Reality . New York: Oxford University Press. Heim, Michael. 1998. Virtual Realism . New York: Oxford University Press.