Virtual Worlds: A Journey in Hype and HyperrealityPenguin Books, 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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... ENIAC , at the University of Pennsylvania fared better . This huge machine was designed to take some of the pressure off the US Army's Proving Ground at Aberdeen , Maryland , where , by 1944 , requests for new ballistic tables were ...
... ENIAC , at the University of Pennsylvania fared better . This huge machine was designed to take some of the pressure off the US Army's Proving Ground at Aberdeen , Maryland , where , by 1944 , requests for new ballistic tables were ...
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... ENIAC design on the character or complication of the problems which it can do ' , they wrote . " The ENIAC should be able to solve many of these larger problems faster than they can be done on any other existing machine . Undoubtedly ...
... ENIAC design on the character or complication of the problems which it can do ' , they wrote . " The ENIAC should be able to solve many of these larger problems faster than they can be done on any other existing machine . Undoubtedly ...
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... ENIAC computer at the University of Pennsylvania as an ' electronic brain ' . At that time , the word ' computer ' was still used to mean a worker engaged in calculation , and the very fact of its application to a machine clearly ...
... ENIAC computer at the University of Pennsylvania as an ' electronic brain ' . At that time , the word ' computer ' was still used to mean a worker engaged in calculation , and the very fact of its application to a machine clearly ...
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