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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... catastrophe theory' in the 1960s. Catastrophe theory was itself described in terms that anticipated Gleick and his like. '[Catastrophe] theory is controversial because it proposes that the mathematics underlying three hundred years of ...
... catastrophe theory' in the 1960s. Catastrophe theory was itself described in terms that anticipated Gleick and his like. '[Catastrophe] theory is controversial because it proposes that the mathematics underlying three hundred years of ...
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... catastrophe theory, Thom was not concerned with the topology of familiar physical objects, or even familiar abstract ... Catastrophe theory, therefore, was no more concerned with our everyday idea of catastrophe than chaos theory is ...
... catastrophe theory, Thom was not concerned with the topology of familiar physical objects, or even familiar abstract ... Catastrophe theory, therefore, was no more concerned with our everyday idea of catastrophe than chaos theory is ...
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... catastrophe theory was more than a matter of style. At its height, it claimed to provide a means of understanding any type of catastrophe, from prison riots through the outbreak of the First World War to schizophrenia. There seemed to ...
... catastrophe theory was more than a matter of style. At its height, it claimed to provide a means of understanding any type of catastrophe, from prison riots through the outbreak of the First World War to schizophrenia. There seemed to ...
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... Catastrophe Theory: the emperor has no clothes', Science, 15 April 1977. 24 R. S. Zahler, 'Claims and accomplishments of applied catastrophe theory', Nature, 27 October 1977. 25 The Economist, 12 May 1990, p. 85. 26 Anita Mehta and Gary ...
... Catastrophe Theory: the emperor has no clothes', Science, 15 April 1977. 24 R. S. Zahler, 'Claims and accomplishments of applied catastrophe theory', Nature, 27 October 1977. 25 The Economist, 12 May 1990, p. 85. 26 Anita Mehta and Gary ...
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... catastrophe . He argued that quantum physics demonstrated the weakness of Western materialism , the danger of iron ... hypothesis . Unlike Capra's book , it was not meant to be a manifesto , though it has been taken by many as the basis of ...
... catastrophe . He argued that quantum physics demonstrated the weakness of Western materialism , the danger of iron ... hypothesis . Unlike Capra's book , it was not meant to be a manifesto , though it has been taken by many as the basis of ...
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