This week’s issue of The Escapist features an article I wrote on the dangers of photorealistic computer graphics.

The commercial was obviously computer-generated; there was something not quite right about the way Reeve moved and the look of his head during that close-up. And yet, after it aired, the National Spinal Cord Injury Association was inundated with calls from viewers who wanted to know how Reeve was cured. In spite of the “Uncanny Valley” effect of the computer animation, the television audience, fooled by the technology – or perhaps seeing what they wanted to see – believed Reeve had been cured.

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