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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... argued that each new technology is initially understood in terms of its predecessors: the car was the horseless carriage, television was radio with pictures, and so virtual reality is currently seen as physical reality with a few extra ...
... argued that each new technology is initially understood in terms of its predecessors: the car was the horseless carriage, television was radio with pictures, and so virtual reality is currently seen as physical reality with a few extra ...
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... argued Stallman, so can a typewriter's 'user interface', forcing each typewriter manufacturer to come out with a different arrangement of the keys, and so can a car's, forcing each car company to use different alternatives to the ...
... argued Stallman, so can a typewriter's 'user interface', forcing each typewriter manufacturer to come out with a different arrangement of the keys, and so can a car's, forcing each car company to use different alternatives to the ...
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... argued, becoming alarmingly relevant to its subsequent behaviour. Had there, then, been a computer counter-revolution that had simply left a new set of plutocratic pigs in control? Certainly, notwithstanding its counter-cultural origins ...
... argued, becoming alarmingly relevant to its subsequent behaviour. Had there, then, been a computer counter-revolution that had simply left a new set of plutocratic pigs in control? Certainly, notwithstanding its counter-cultural origins ...
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... argued, is different. In America, cable TV has seriously threatened the power of the national networks. Perhaps this marks the beginning of a fundamental shift in the structure of the television market. But, even with high-technology ...
... argued, is different. In America, cable TV has seriously threatened the power of the national networks. Perhaps this marks the beginning of a fundamental shift in the structure of the television market. But, even with high-technology ...
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... argued over were never resolved — or even, one could argue, clearly defined — was a symptom of a growing impatience with the need to consider the foundations or philosophy of mathematics. The debate seemed no longer to matter, and it ...
... argued over were never resolved — or even, one could argue, clearly defined — was a symptom of a growing impatience with the need to consider the foundations or philosophy of mathematics. The debate seemed no longer to matter, and it ...
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