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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... becomes indistinguishable from — even more authentic than — the original, when computers can create synthetic worlds that are more realistic than the real world, when technology scorns nature? Evidence of artificialization seemed to be ...
... becomes indistinguishable from — even more authentic than — the original, when computers can create synthetic worlds that are more realistic than the real world, when technology scorns nature? Evidence of artificialization seemed to be ...
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... become a waxwork if it meant a position at Madame Tussaud's, the most popular tourist site in London. In an ... becomes extremely difficult to continue using it. For this reason, perhaps, some may regard it as a peculiar subject for any ...
... become a waxwork if it meant a position at Madame Tussaud's, the most popular tourist site in London. In an ... becomes extremely difficult to continue using it. For this reason, perhaps, some may regard it as a peculiar subject for any ...
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... becoming realities'.5 And why not? A few cancerous rats prove nothing: there is no law of science (though perhaps one of logic) that says a fat-free fat is impossible. It is this sort of debate, and what for most of us is a genuine ...
... becoming realities'.5 And why not? A few cancerous rats prove nothing: there is no law of science (though perhaps one of logic) that says a fat-free fat is impossible. It is this sort of debate, and what for most of us is a genuine ...
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... becoming realities, does that really mean that reality is fast becoming a dream? For centuries, the issue of what does and does not count as real has been a matter of philosophy. There have been two main questions, what could be called ...
... becoming realities, does that really mean that reality is fast becoming a dream? For centuries, the issue of what does and does not count as real has been a matter of philosophy. There have been two main questions, what could be called ...
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... become, well, real. It is for this reason that reality is no longer secure, no longer something we can simply assume to be there. Most people probably now have some idea of what virtual reality is. It is the technology used to provide a ...
... become, well, real. It is for this reason that reality is no longer secure, no longer something we can simply assume to be there. Most people probably now have some idea of what virtual reality is. It is the technology used to provide a ...
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