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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... structure. It is independent of us, uncontaminated by us. The problem with synthetic substances like Olestra is that they are not a part of it —worse, that they seem to ignore it, even violate it. Fat-free fat, like alcohol-free ...
... structure. It is independent of us, uncontaminated by us. The problem with synthetic substances like Olestra is that they are not a part of it —worse, that they seem to ignore it, even violate it. Fat-free fat, like alcohol-free ...
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... simplified illustration of the structure of molecules: atoms are no more like ping- pong balls than they are like footballs, or rain-clouds, or solar systems. After Robinett's sober, sensible assessment came Jaron Lanier's. He introduced.
... simplified illustration of the structure of molecules: atoms are no more like ping- pong balls than they are like footballs, or rain-clouds, or solar systems. After Robinett's sober, sensible assessment came Jaron Lanier's. He introduced.
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... structure. This was, of course, intended to reflect its publishers' free-thinking philosophy, a reluctance to give one piece of information primacy over another on the grounds that it was more democratic to let the readers decide for ...
... structure. This was, of course, intended to reflect its publishers' free-thinking philosophy, a reluctance to give one piece of information primacy over another on the grounds that it was more democratic to let the readers decide for ...
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... structures that control information technology. For people like Brand, however, a very different reaction has emerged, one that sees the personal computer revolution as having wrought fundamental political change that simply needs ...
... structures that control information technology. For people like Brand, however, a very different reaction has emerged, one that sees the personal computer revolution as having wrought fundamental political change that simply needs ...
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... structure of the television market. But, even with high-technology cable systems offerings hundreds of channels and unlimited access, the most likely outcome is the development of TV more along the lines of newspaper and magazine ...
... structure of the television market. But, even with high-technology cable systems offerings hundreds of channels and unlimited access, the most likely outcome is the development of TV more along the lines of newspaper and magazine ...
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