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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... pattern of political responses. For people like Stallman, the hacker ethic represents a form of subversion that refuses to accept commercial control. He does not see the personal computer as a tool of freedom at all, since it has failed ...
... pattern of political responses. For people like Stallman, the hacker ethic represents a form of subversion that refuses to accept commercial control. He does not see the personal computer as a tool of freedom at all, since it has failed ...
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... patterns. They even managed to create a game using a dot that traced the path of a bouncing ball, the game element coming from adjusting the input variables (in other words, the height from which the 'ball' was dropped) so that it would ...
... patterns. They even managed to create a game using a dot that traced the path of a bouncing ball, the game element coming from adjusting the input variables (in other words, the height from which the 'ball' was dropped) so that it would ...
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... patterns of marks, and looking up the pattern in a 'table of behaviour' to see what it should do next. In fact, the actual mechanisms needed to perform such functions could easily be implemented using standard mechanics - it would not ...
... patterns of marks, and looking up the pattern in a 'table of behaviour' to see what it should do next. In fact, the actual mechanisms needed to perform such functions could easily be implemented using standard mechanics - it would not ...
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... pattern of perpetual computation. Thought about in detail, this idea is difficult to visualize. A Turing machine is easily imagined as a sort of typewriter or tape-recorder, with a strip of tape — albeit infinite — shifting this way and ...
... pattern of perpetual computation. Thought about in detail, this idea is difficult to visualize. A Turing machine is easily imagined as a sort of typewriter or tape-recorder, with a strip of tape — albeit infinite — shifting this way and ...
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... patterns, patterns that spit out gliders ('glider guns'), that form 'flotillas', that consume other patterns. There is even a pattern that performs the functions of a Turing machine, a universal computer, with gliders acting as ...
... patterns, patterns that spit out gliders ('glider guns'), that form 'flotillas', that consume other patterns. There is even a pattern that performs the functions of a Turing machine, a universal computer, with gliders acting as ...
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