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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... Turing in a paper entitled 'On computable numbers'.3 The temptation is to say that Turing's paper was a turning point in the intellectual history of our times, but it was published in a period when every point was being turned. A ...
... Turing in a paper entitled 'On computable numbers'.3 The temptation is to say that Turing's paper was a turning point in the intellectual history of our times, but it was published in a period when every point was being turned. A ...
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... Turing disposed of the last of Hilbert's original criterion for establishing the validity of a mathematical system, that of decidability. His technique was to construct a hypothetical machine, one very like a typewriter, but with a ...
... Turing disposed of the last of Hilbert's original criterion for establishing the validity of a mathematical system, that of decidability. His technique was to construct a hypothetical machine, one very like a typewriter, but with a ...
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... Turing attended a series of lectures given by Wittgenstein on the philosophy of mathematics, in which the latter set about undermining Turing's faith in the necessity to discover 'hidden contradictions'. Hilbert had said: 'No one is ...
... Turing attended a series of lectures given by Wittgenstein on the philosophy of mathematics, in which the latter set about undermining Turing's faith in the necessity to discover 'hidden contradictions'. Hilbert had said: 'No one is ...
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... Turing had shown that some numbers were uncomputable, which was interesting, maybe even useful, but unlikely to change the course of technological history. Turing's insight, however, did much more than just establish the limits of ...
... Turing had shown that some numbers were uncomputable, which was interesting, maybe even useful, but unlikely to change the course of technological history. Turing's insight, however, did much more than just establish the limits of ...
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... Turing machine, for example, can be simulated on another computer using software. But it can also be built (quite easily: all you need is some tape, a little circuitry and a couple of lamps) in hardware. And there is no difference ...
... Turing machine, for example, can be simulated on another computer using software. But it can also be built (quite easily: all you need is some tape, a little circuitry and a couple of lamps) in hardware. And there is no difference ...
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