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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... quantum physics, Darwinian evolution and so — and exchange their ideas through the same journals and at the same conferences. on It is this fact that seems to support Viscount Samuel's assertion that 'the whole body of scientific ...
... quantum physics, Darwinian evolution and so — and exchange their ideas through the same journals and at the same conferences. on It is this fact that seems to support Viscount Samuel's assertion that 'the whole body of scientific ...
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... Quantum mechanics has been described as the most successful scientific theory ever, the foundation of modern physics and the basis of the technology of our times. Yet in 1935, Albert Einstein, whose work led directly to the theory's ...
... Quantum mechanics has been described as the most successful scientific theory ever, the foundation of modern physics and the basis of the technology of our times. Yet in 1935, Albert Einstein, whose work led directly to the theory's ...
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... quantum leap' trick, jumping between different orbits around the atom's central nucleus without at any time being anywhere in between. In the mid-1920s, the French nobleman Louis de Broglie had started to formulate the idea of 'matter ...
... quantum leap' trick, jumping between different orbits around the atom's central nucleus without at any time being anywhere in between. In the mid-1920s, the French nobleman Louis de Broglie had started to formulate the idea of 'matter ...
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... quantum physicists call a 'superposition' of both states. This startling conclusion is the result of the whole process being initiated by a quantum effect, the release of a particle, say an electron, by the radioactive material ...
... quantum physicists call a 'superposition' of both states. This startling conclusion is the result of the whole process being initiated by a quantum effect, the release of a particle, say an electron, by the radioactive material ...
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... quantum mechanical description of physical reality be considered complete?' The paper contained a 'paradox', called the EPR paradox after the initials of its authors, designed to show that the 'quantum-mechanical description' (in other ...
... quantum mechanical description of physical reality be considered complete?' The paper contained a 'paradox', called the EPR paradox after the initials of its authors, designed to show that the 'quantum-mechanical description' (in other ...
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