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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... revolution- aries and acted accordingly . In motivation , style , and global effect , they fought and won a Second American Revolution . Oh , was it American . ' The son of a Hollywood star and a movie director , the product of ...
... revolution- aries and acted accordingly . In motivation , style , and global effect , they fought and won a Second American Revolution . Oh , was it American . ' The son of a Hollywood star and a movie director , the product of ...
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... revolution that had simply left a new set of plutocratic pigs in control ? Certainly , notwithstanding its counter - cultural origins and the Californian location of its heartland , the computer industry emerged from the experience as ...
... revolution that had simply left a new set of plutocratic pigs in control ? Certainly , notwithstanding its counter - cultural origins and the Californian location of its heartland , the computer industry emerged from the experience as ...
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... revolution produced a mass migration from farm to factory , the postindustrial revolution seems to be producing a mass migration from factory to fantasy . Just as dirt tracks at the EuroDisney Resort construction site were resurfaced ...
... revolution produced a mass migration from farm to factory , the postindustrial revolution seems to be producing a mass migration from factory to fantasy . Just as dirt tracks at the EuroDisney Resort construction site were resurfaced ...
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