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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Pagina 159
... Xanadu project aimed at exploiting these advantages . It was to comprise two main components . A company called the Xanadu Operating Company ( XOC ) , owned by Autodesk , was given the task of producing what Nelson called ' a hypermedia ...
... Xanadu project aimed at exploiting these advantages . It was to comprise two main components . A company called the Xanadu Operating Company ( XOC ) , owned by Autodesk , was given the task of producing what Nelson called ' a hypermedia ...
Pagina 160
... Xanadu was made up of texts from a variety of different publishers . This royalty payments system was a key component of Xanadu , since it would , Nelson argued , create a market , a trade of texts that would encourage more publishers ...
... Xanadu was made up of texts from a variety of different publishers . This royalty payments system was a key component of Xanadu , since it would , Nelson argued , create a market , a trade of texts that would encourage more publishers ...
Pagina 161
... Xanadu , they will be more sophisticated . When Xanadu is mentioned in a text about Ted Nelson , there will be no need to scurry off to a poetry collection that may or may not contain Coleridge's poem , ' Kubla Khan ' , or to a history ...
... Xanadu , they will be more sophisticated . When Xanadu is mentioned in a text about Ted Nelson , there will be no need to scurry off to a poetry collection that may or may not contain Coleridge's poem , ' Kubla Khan ' , or to a history ...
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