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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... phenomenon has revealed is a somewhat complicated 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 ...
... phenomenon has revealed is a somewhat complicated 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 ...
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... phenomena like the flight of an aeroplane. Flying is partly about numbers, the numbers represented on the plane's instrument panel: the degrees on the compass, the knots on the airspeed indicator, the feet on the altimeter. These ...
... phenomena like the flight of an aeroplane. Flying is partly about numbers, the numbers represented on the plane's instrument panel: the degrees on the compass, the knots on the airspeed indicator, the feet on the altimeter. These ...
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... phenomena, even cockpit noise (generated by a Hammond organ), and the ability to reproduce the flying characteristics of different types of aeroplane. However, by now player-piano engineering was approaching its coda. The Second World ...
... phenomena, even cockpit noise (generated by a Hammond organ), and the ability to reproduce the flying characteristics of different types of aeroplane. However, by now player-piano engineering was approaching its coda. The Second World ...
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... phenomena. It had become an apparently self-contained system for manipulating its own symbols, one that operated quite separately from the real world. As Andrew Hodges, a mathematician and biographer of Alan Turing, put it: 'A rule such ...
... phenomena. It had become an apparently self-contained system for manipulating its own symbols, one that operated quite separately from the real world. As Andrew Hodges, a mathematician and biographer of Alan Turing, put it: 'A rule such ...
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... phenomena displayed by newly discovered subatomic particles such as electrons . Such particles behave very strangely , at least as mapped in physical space . But , the Hungarian - American mathematician John von Neumann , the man ...
... phenomena displayed by newly discovered subatomic particles such as electrons . Such particles behave very strangely , at least as mapped in physical space . But , the Hungarian - American mathematician John von Neumann , the man ...
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