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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... 'the metaphysics are inescapable'.9 Technology, he and the subsequent speakers observed, could manipulate reality to the point of being able to create it. Artificialization is no longer just a matter of cultural observation.
... 'the metaphysics are inescapable'.9 Technology, he and the subsequent speakers observed, could manipulate reality to the point of being able to create it. Artificialization is no longer just a matter of cultural observation.
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... observation or intellectual angst, it had become, well, real. It is for this reason that reality is no longer secure, no longer something we can simply assume to be there. Most people probably now have some idea of what virtual reality ...
... observation or intellectual angst, it had become, well, real. It is for this reason that reality is no longer secure, no longer something we can simply assume to be there. Most people probably now have some idea of what virtual reality ...
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... observation that people talk about 'information' a lot these days. Money, phone calls, an architectural model, the smell of rose petals, pi, 'Stairway to heaven' by Led Zeppelin, DNA and the light of a distant star are all information ...
... observation that people talk about 'information' a lot these days. Money, phone calls, an architectural model, the smell of rose petals, pi, 'Stairway to heaven' by Led Zeppelin, DNA and the light of a distant star are all information ...
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... observation rather than the church . Galileo had , with his determined manner and his probing telescope , developed an approach to truth that has since become perhaps the most successful aspect of scientific practice : the insistence ...
... observation rather than the church . Galileo had , with his determined manner and his probing telescope , developed an approach to truth that has since become perhaps the most successful aspect of scientific practice : the insistence ...
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... to be mathematical. As noted earlier, Galileo regarded the book of the universe as a text written in the language of mathematics. This is what made Newton's laws more than mere observations and generalizations. They could compute the.
... to be mathematical. As noted earlier, Galileo regarded the book of the universe as a text written in the language of mathematics. This is what made Newton's laws more than mere observations and generalizations. They could compute the.
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