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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... called ' cellular automata ' . These created the same sort of game as the one described above though , in von Neumann's case , using many more types of pieces and much more complex rules . Using this technique , von Neumann was able ...
... called ' cellular automata ' . These created the same sort of game as the one described above though , in von Neumann's case , using many more types of pieces and much more complex rules . Using this technique , von Neumann was able ...
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... called 2DWORLD on his departmental computer from which spontaneously emerged a creature called YNDRD . Having discovered YNDRD , Dewdney and his students went on to uncover an entire world , complete with its own societies , cities and ...
... called 2DWORLD on his departmental computer from which spontaneously emerged a creature called YNDRD . Having discovered YNDRD , Dewdney and his students went on to uncover an entire world , complete with its own societies , cities and ...
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... called simply ' theory ' . ' This new kind of discourse , generally associated with France and so - called French theory , is becoming widespread and marks the end of philosophy as such . Is the world of Michel Foucault , for example ...
... called simply ' theory ' . ' This new kind of discourse , generally associated with France and so - called French theory , is becoming widespread and marks the end of philosophy as such . Is the world of Michel Foucault , for example ...
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