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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... Century decided to create one. It commissioned the writer Michael Russell to ghost write the book, and hired the actor Norman Lumsden, who had played Hartley in the original advertisement, to pose as the author. The result was a fiction ...
... Century decided to create one. It commissioned the writer Michael Russell to ghost write the book, and hired the actor Norman Lumsden, who had played Hartley in the original advertisement, to pose as the author. The result was a fiction ...
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... century that there is no reality? When the newspapers and the food manufacturers tell us that dreams are fast becoming realities, does that really mean that reality is fast becoming a dream? For centuries, the issue of what does and ...
... century that there is no reality? When the newspapers and the food manufacturers tell us that dreams are fast becoming realities, does that really mean that reality is fast becoming a dream? For centuries, the issue of what does and ...
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... centuries, the goal of human effort was to tap Nature's terrible power. Our success has been so complete, that a new ... century, when it came to be known as 'Occam's razor', after the English philosopher William of Occam. Occam was a ...
... centuries, the goal of human effort was to tap Nature's terrible power. Our success has been so complete, that a new ... century, when it came to be known as 'Occam's razor', after the English philosopher William of Occam. Occam was a ...
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... century, and that, if not the most important ever held by human beings, this was certainly a meeting worth its entrance fee. Leary's early life is the story more of significant departures than meetings. He was born in 1920 to a fun ...
... century, and that, if not the most important ever held by human beings, this was certainly a meeting worth its entrance fee. Leary's early life is the story more of significant departures than meetings. He was born in 1920 to a fun ...
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... century Arab mathematician whose second book gave us the word algebra (from the Arabic Al-jabr). It is now used to describe any mathematical procedure that can be completed by some automatic, mechanistic means, without the need for any ...
... century Arab mathematician whose second book gave us the word algebra (from the Arabic Al-jabr). It is now used to describe any mathematical procedure that can be completed by some automatic, mechanistic means, without the need for any ...
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