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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... Automatic Computer ) , EDSAC ( Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator ) , UNIVAC , SEAC , SWAC and even MANIAC . Each of these tried out new technologies , but all of them had the same basic design , the same architecture ...
... Automatic Computer ) , EDSAC ( Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator ) , UNIVAC , SEAC , SWAC and even MANIAC . Each of these tried out new technologies , but all of them had the same basic design , the same architecture ...
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... automatic trading systems were under control . One possible cause , however , that the markets did not contemplate - perhaps could not contemplate - was that the 1989 crash was evidence that the world stock markets were , in effect ...
... automatic trading systems were under control . One possible cause , however , that the markets did not contemplate - perhaps could not contemplate - was that the 1989 crash was evidence that the world stock markets were , in effect ...
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A Journey in Hype and Hyperreality Benjamin Woolley. Automatic Record Tabulator and Heuristically Unreliable Reasoner ( ARTHUR ) , 107 automation , 43 AWACS , 193 Babbage , Charles , 46 , 105 Analytical Engine , 110 Difference Engine ...
A Journey in Hype and Hyperreality Benjamin Woolley. Automatic Record Tabulator and Heuristically Unreliable Reasoner ( ARTHUR ) , 107 automation , 43 AWACS , 193 Babbage , Charles , 46 , 105 Analytical Engine , 110 Difference Engine ...
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