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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... French Revolution , and its potency is reflected in the fact that we take it for granted that everyone has a right to knowledge , a right reflected in the un- questioning duty of the state to educate the public . While the first ...
... French Revolution , and its potency is reflected in the fact that we take it for granted that everyone has a right to knowledge , a right reflected in the un- questioning duty of the state to educate the public . While the first ...
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... French press , was that there was no ' thing itself ' , no ' real ' war depicted in those images . It was a postmodern war , a war where there is no reality , just , in Baudrillard's language , a simulation of it . ' The " live war " is ...
... French press , was that there was no ' thing itself ' , no ' real ' war depicted in those images . It was a postmodern war , a war where there is no reality , just , in Baudrillard's language , a simulation of it . ' The " live war " is ...
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... French government at 1971 agricultural prices , Disney opened its European theme park . Given the French enthusiasm for protecting itself from alien cultural influences with institutions like the Academie , it was puzzling that a ...
... French government at 1971 agricultural prices , Disney opened its European theme park . Given the French enthusiasm for protecting itself from alien cultural influences with institutions like the Academie , it was puzzling that a ...
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