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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... emergence as one of the 'Big Ideas' of the 1990s, issues that remain neglected by the computer industry, but which I hope to show are essential to making sense of the developments that have led to this rude instrusion of metaphysics ...
... emergence as one of the 'Big Ideas' of the 1990s, issues that remain neglected by the computer industry, but which I hope to show are essential to making sense of the developments that have led to this rude instrusion of metaphysics ...
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... emerged. Created by human ingenuity, it is an artificial reality.10 The champions of virtual reality and computer simulation —who are not just pioneering visionaries but powerful commercial interests — are wanting to make artificial ...
... emerged. Created by human ingenuity, it is an artificial reality.10 The champions of virtual reality and computer simulation —who are not just pioneering visionaries but powerful commercial interests — are wanting to make artificial ...
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... emerge from the event, one generated not by a computer but by Senator Al Gore, a member of the US Congress's science and technology committee. 'Information', he told a packed inaugural meeting by way of a pre-recorded video, 'is ...
... emerge from the event, one generated not by a computer but by Senator Al Gore, a member of the US Congress's science and technology committee. 'Information', he told a packed inaugural meeting by way of a pre-recorded video, 'is ...
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... emerged from the experience as politically conservative as any other, asserting a robust, red-blooded free-market philosophy that saw commercial competition as the only legitimate form of power struggle, and lawsuits as the only ...
... emerged from the experience as politically conservative as any other, asserting a robust, red-blooded free-market philosophy that saw commercial competition as the only legitimate form of power struggle, and lawsuits as the only ...
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... emergence so significant. I can predict with absolute certainty that there will not come a day when virtual reality in the sense meant by its most ardent supporters will be realized. Furthermore, most of the research done under its ...
... emergence so significant. I can predict with absolute certainty that there will not come a day when virtual reality in the sense meant by its most ardent supporters will be realized. Furthermore, most of the research done under its ...
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