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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... designed to discover the psychoactive effects of such drugs, and the otherwise hidden regions of the mind they seemed to reveal. At the time, such experiments were regarded as a perfectly respectable academic pursuit, part of Leary's ...
... designed to discover the psychoactive effects of such drugs, and the otherwise hidden regions of the mind they seemed to reveal. At the time, such experiments were regarded as a perfectly respectable academic pursuit, part of Leary's ...
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... designed to hold back the fulfilment of the Nelsonian dream of universal computing. The white stetson, meanwhile, was worn by Digitial Equipment Corporation, DEC. Described by Nelson as 'The computer fan's computer company', the highest ...
... designed to hold back the fulfilment of the Nelsonian dream of universal computing. The white stetson, meanwhile, was worn by Digitial Equipment Corporation, DEC. Described by Nelson as 'The computer fan's computer company', the highest ...
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... designed to be any sort of vendetta: people were actually expected to offer themselves for candidacy. In The Second Self, Sherry Turkle's book on the psychology of computers, this contest is interpreted as an expression of the ...
... designed to be any sort of vendetta: people were actually expected to offer themselves for candidacy. In The Second Self, Sherry Turkle's book on the psychology of computers, this contest is interpreted as an expression of the ...
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... designed for authors to protect their creative effort. However, with the introduction of cheap copying technology —tape recorders, photocopiers, personal computers — it has increasingly been adopted by publishers to protect their ...
... designed for authors to protect their creative effort. However, with the introduction of cheap copying technology —tape recorders, photocopiers, personal computers — it has increasingly been adopted by publishers to protect their ...
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... designed a ' Difference Engine ' to perform the repetitive calculations that clerks ( known as ' computers ' before the word was applied to machines ) had to make to draw up the tables that were becoming increasingly important to ...
... designed a ' Difference Engine ' to perform the repetitive calculations that clerks ( known as ' computers ' before the word was applied to machines ) had to make to draw up the tables that were becoming increasingly important to ...
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