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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... buildings of American cities , attracting tens of thousands of delegates and a celestial ( by computer industry ... building with the proportions of a cathedral ? If anything , it turned out to be too small . The place thronged with ...
... buildings of American cities , attracting tens of thousands of delegates and a celestial ( by computer industry ... building with the proportions of a cathedral ? If anything , it turned out to be too small . The place thronged with ...
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... buildings that would have no single meaning , because , as all deconstructivists have discovered , there is no single meaning to any text . So he scattered the park with little red metal box buildings he called folies , not because they ...
... buildings that would have no single meaning , because , as all deconstructivists have discovered , there is no single meaning to any text . So he scattered the park with little red metal box buildings he called folies , not because they ...
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... building a ' quantum memory ' , a device that would be capable of observing and recording the outcome of a quantum experiment as a set of quantum states . Since humans do not ( or are not known ) to have such a memory , Deutsch imagined ...
... building a ' quantum memory ' , a device that would be capable of observing and recording the outcome of a quantum experiment as a set of quantum states . Since humans do not ( or are not known ) to have such a memory , Deutsch imagined ...
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