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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... German , Japanese and the Australian aboriginal language Warlpiri ( of interest to linguists because words can be used in virtually any order ) . But his program could not reveal semantic equivalence - in other words , translate . The ...
... German , Japanese and the Australian aboriginal language Warlpiri ( of interest to linguists because words can be used in virtually any order ) . But his program could not reveal semantic equivalence - in other words , translate . The ...
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A Journey in Hype and Hyperreality Benjamin Woolley. The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche is , perhaps , the archetype hero of modernism ; indeed , one might romantically think that it was the contemplation of the uncertainties of ...
A Journey in Hype and Hyperreality Benjamin Woolley. The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche is , perhaps , the archetype hero of modernism ; indeed , one might romantically think that it was the contemplation of the uncertainties of ...
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... German physicist Max Planck had established ( while taking tea with a colleague , we are rather picturesquely informed by the physicist Werner Heisen- berg13 ) that the mathematical formulae that best explained the absorption of energy ...
... German physicist Max Planck had established ( while taking tea with a colleague , we are rather picturesquely informed by the physicist Werner Heisen- berg13 ) that the mathematical formulae that best explained the absorption of energy ...
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