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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... claimed, people played tag by hiding inside each others' heads, in which they had even started flirting with each other? It was not the world I had experienced on the exhibition floor. I had experienced a crudely rendered, primary ...
... claimed, people played tag by hiding inside each others' heads, in which they had even started flirting with each other? It was not the world I had experienced on the exhibition floor. I had experienced a crudely rendered, primary ...
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... claimed that there were quite sufficient resources to serve all humanity, the only problem lay in their deployment. As a response to this he developed the concept of Dymaxion, a contraction of the words 'dynamic', 'maximum' and 'ion ...
... claimed that there were quite sufficient resources to serve all humanity, the only problem lay in their deployment. As a response to this he developed the concept of Dymaxion, a contraction of the words 'dynamic', 'maximum' and 'ion ...
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... claimed to be the world's first microcomputer offered for sale . It provided , however , meagre computing resources , cost several thousand dollars in any operable configuration , and served , no useful purpose . But it was a start . It ...
... claimed to be the world's first microcomputer offered for sale . It provided , however , meagre computing resources , cost several thousand dollars in any operable configuration , and served , no useful purpose . But it was a start . It ...
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... claimed to be the first example of 'man machine interactive control of the display', as well as the first computer game.10 An early testing program written to run on the Whirlwind produced a series of dots arranged as a grid on the ...
... claimed to be the first example of 'man machine interactive control of the display', as well as the first computer game.10 An early testing program written to run on the Whirlwind produced a series of dots arranged as a grid on the ...
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... claimed to be about establishing the structure of knowledge and reasoning. It established, for example, that statements of the form 'if p and q then q' (as in 'if it is true to say that it is hot and sunny, then it is true to say that ...
... claimed to be about establishing the structure of knowledge and reasoning. It established, for example, that statements of the form 'if p and q then q' (as in 'if it is true to say that it is hot and sunny, then it is true to say that ...
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