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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... Russian - Belgian Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine co - wrote a book in 1984 which developed the idea of self - organization to show how the second law of thermodynamics , the law of ' entropy ' which says that everything tends towards a ...
... Russian - Belgian Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine co - wrote a book in 1984 which developed the idea of self - organization to show how the second law of thermodynamics , the law of ' entropy ' which says that everything tends towards a ...
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... Russians putting the first man in space . The competition between these two was probably as much a device to reinforce political wills and budgetary commitments as an attempt to be the first to reach a particular technological target ...
... Russians putting the first man in space . The competition between these two was probably as much a device to reinforce political wills and budgetary commitments as an attempt to be the first to reach a particular technological target ...
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... Russian artist Kazimir Malevich , who formalized his discoveries in a new artistic movement he called ' suprematism ' . Despite the fascist sounding name , suprematism was concerned with aesthetic , not racial , ascendency . It claimed ...
... Russian artist Kazimir Malevich , who formalized his discoveries in a new artistic movement he called ' suprematism ' . Despite the fascist sounding name , suprematism was concerned with aesthetic , not racial , ascendency . It claimed ...
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