Virtual Worlds: A Journey in Hype and HyperrealityBenjamin Woolley, 1993 - 274 pagina's In Virtual Worlds, Benjamin Woolley examines the reality of virtual reality. He looks at the dramatic intellectual and cultural upheavals that gave birth to it, the hype that surrounds it, the people who have promoted it, and the dramatic implications of its development. Virtual reality is not simply a technology, it is a way of thinking created and promoted by a group of technologists and thinkers that sees itself as creating our future. Virtual Worlds reveals the politics and culture of these virtual realists, and examines whether they are creating reality, or losing their grasp of it. 12 photographs. |
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... Mandelbrot, nephew of the Bourbakist Szolem Mandelbrojt, sees himself, and is seen by many, as the champion of the more intuitive, less reductive set of scientific attitudes that are associated with chaos. Unlike his colleagues in ...
... Mandelbrot, nephew of the Bourbakist Szolem Mandelbrojt, sees himself, and is seen by many, as the champion of the more intuitive, less reductive set of scientific attitudes that are associated with chaos. Unlike his colleagues in ...
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... Mandelbrot had found elsewhere. It seemed to hold some sort of universal meaning, plotting the boundary conditions that govern the behaviour of any number of potentially 'turbulent' or chaotic phenomena: stock exchange indices, galactic ...
... Mandelbrot had found elsewhere. It seemed to hold some sort of universal meaning, plotting the boundary conditions that govern the behaviour of any number of potentially 'turbulent' or chaotic phenomena: stock exchange indices, galactic ...
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... topic of the 1970s intellectual dinner-round, the 1980s saw it simply disappear from the agenda. The reason may partly be the character of Thom himself, a bit of a Mandelbrot, celebrated for his intuition and imagination, and in equal.
... topic of the 1970s intellectual dinner-round, the 1980s saw it simply disappear from the agenda. The reason may partly be the character of Thom himself, a bit of a Mandelbrot, celebrated for his intuition and imagination, and in equal.
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... Mandelbrot as the geometry of nature, but there is no proof of this. Nature remains insolently silent on the matter. She will not say where she got her designs from. With the passing of catastrophe theory and the no-doubt imminent lapse ...
... Mandelbrot as the geometry of nature, but there is no proof of this. Nature remains insolently silent on the matter. She will not say where she got her designs from. With the passing of catastrophe theory and the no-doubt imminent lapse ...
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... that had been compressed without any knowledge of their content: they had been analysed by the computer as simply a meaningless map of bits. And what they demonstrated is that all the richness, variety, all Mandelbrot's.
... that had been compressed without any knowledge of their content: they had been analysed by the computer as simply a meaningless map of bits. And what they demonstrated is that all the richness, variety, all Mandelbrot's.
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