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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... catastrophe theory ' in the 1960s . Catastrophe theory was itself described in terms that anticipated Gleick and his like . ' [ Catastrophe ] theory is controversial because it proposes that the mathematics underlying three hundred ...
... catastrophe theory ' in the 1960s . Catastrophe theory was itself described in terms that anticipated Gleick and his like . ' [ Catastrophe ] theory is controversial because it proposes that the mathematics underlying three hundred ...
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... catastrophe theory , or is engaged in some conspiracy to deprive it of its proper position in intellectual history - the ideas surrounding both emerged around the same time . Catastrophe theory is , furthermore , wholly concerned with a ...
... catastrophe theory , or is engaged in some conspiracy to deprive it of its proper position in intellectual history - the ideas surrounding both emerged around the same time . Catastrophe theory is , furthermore , wholly concerned with a ...
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... catastrophe theory was part of an intellectual movement that stifled the early development of chaos theory seems uncharitable . Even less charitable is the fact that catastrophe theory was excluded from nearly every history of chaos ...
... catastrophe theory was part of an intellectual movement that stifled the early development of chaos theory seems uncharitable . Even less charitable is the fact that catastrophe theory was excluded from nearly every history of chaos ...
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