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 91
... chaos theory is concerned with our everyday idea of chaos ( if anything , one could argue that both were concerned with the opposite of what their names suggested , with the discovery of pattern and order ) . But , as with chaos , the ...
... chaos theory is concerned with our everyday idea of chaos ( if anything , one could argue that both were concerned with the opposite of what their names suggested , with the discovery of pattern and order ) . But , as with chaos , the ...
Pagina 92
... chaos.22 Certainly , topology is regarded as one of the great preoccupations of twentieth - century mathematics , but the implication that catastrophe theory was part of an intellectual movement that stifled the early development of chaos ...
... chaos.22 Certainly , topology is regarded as one of the great preoccupations of twentieth - century mathematics , but the implication that catastrophe theory was part of an intellectual movement that stifled the early development of chaos ...
Pagina 93
... chaos theory , like catastrophe theory , relies on the assumption that the real world and the mathematical world are in some way connected . It is only too tempting to accept this question as settled . But most of the ' discoveries ' of ...
... chaos theory , like catastrophe theory , relies on the assumption that the real world and the mathematical world are in some way connected . It is only too tempting to accept this question as settled . But most of the ' discoveries ' of ...
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