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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... chaos? This was a question to which computer models such as cellular automata seemed to suggest some sort of answer. At least, so it seemed to Stephen Wolfram. Wolfram was a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation 'genius' grant, a no ...
... chaos? This was a question to which computer models such as cellular automata seemed to suggest some sort of answer. At least, so it seemed to Stephen Wolfram. Wolfram was a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation 'genius' grant, a no ...
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... chaos. It does not sound like much of an explanation, more of a question-begging observation. But it is hard to deny that it happens, and hard not to be impressed that it happens. Cellular automata and reaction-diffusion models are part ...
... chaos. It does not sound like much of an explanation, more of a question-begging observation. But it is hard to deny that it happens, and hard not to be impressed that it happens. Cellular automata and reaction-diffusion models are part ...
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... chaos. Unlike his colleagues in university departments, he was able to cultivate an open mind to the 'mess', as he calls it, of nature. Whereas physicists since Newton endeavoured in their experiments to exclude this mess — dreaming of ...
... chaos. Unlike his colleagues in university departments, he was able to cultivate an open mind to the 'mess', as he calls it, of nature. Whereas physicists since Newton endeavoured in their experiments to exclude this mess — dreaming of ...
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... chaos' in anything like its scientific meaning.20 Yet, substitute the word 'change' with, say, 'behaviour', and you have what could pass as a classic formulation of chaos theory. Quoting Thom, Woodstock and Davis characterize ...
... chaos' in anything like its scientific meaning.20 Yet, substitute the word 'change' with, say, 'behaviour', and you have what could pass as a classic formulation of chaos theory. Quoting Thom, Woodstock and Davis characterize ...
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... chaos theory is concerned with our everyday idea of chaos (if anything, one could argue that both were concerned with the opposite of what their names suggested, with the discovery of pattern and order). But, as with chaos, the ...
... chaos theory is concerned with our everyday idea of chaos (if anything, one could argue that both were concerned with the opposite of what their names suggested, with the discovery of pattern and order). But, as with chaos, the ...
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