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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... self is all that exists — no, that myself is all that exists. The computing industry was built on the liberal belief in ... personal computer, liberated by virtual reality, the individual becomes the God of his or her own universe. The ...
... self is all that exists — no, that myself is all that exists. The computing industry was built on the liberal belief in ... personal computer, liberated by virtual reality, the individual becomes the God of his or her own universe. The ...
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... personal computer equipment to produce the graphics, so was not quite as sophisticated as VPL's. However, it did have a neat demonstration of low-gravity squash. This entailed replacing the Dataglove with a standard squash racket with a ...
... personal computer equipment to produce the graphics, so was not quite as sophisticated as VPL's. However, it did have a neat demonstration of low-gravity squash. This entailed replacing the Dataglove with a standard squash racket with a ...
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... personal computing for the following decade. Some, notably Alan Kay, promoted the idea of the computer being some sort of mental amplification tool at companies like Xerox and Apple, and others went on to discover virtual reality. What ...
... personal computing for the following decade. Some, notably Alan Kay, promoted the idea of the computer being some sort of mental amplification tool at companies like Xerox and Apple, and others went on to discover virtual reality. What ...
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... Computers are mostly Used against people instead of for people Used to control people instead of to ... personal computers, however, it's the right word, because the people who ... computing. As a political and moral tract, Computer Lib is as.
... Computers are mostly Used against people instead of for people Used to control people instead of to ... personal computers, however, it's the right word, because the people who ... computing. As a political and moral tract, Computer Lib is as.
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... Computer Lib is as crude as its title would suggest. Nelson used placard language, right down to the use of capitals for emphasis: 'THIS BOOK IS FOR PERSONAL FREEDOM AND AGAINST RESTRICTION AND COERCION' (and against baby battering too ...
... Computer Lib is as crude as its title would suggest. Nelson used placard language, right down to the use of capitals for emphasis: 'THIS BOOK IS FOR PERSONAL FREEDOM AND AGAINST RESTRICTION AND COERCION' (and against baby battering too ...
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