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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... computer virus is similarly a strand of code , a computer program , that uses the computer's replicating mechanism to produce copies of itself , which are then spread to other host computers via whatever medium they are able to use ...
... computer virus is similarly a strand of code , a computer program , that uses the computer's replicating mechanism to produce copies of itself , which are then spread to other host computers via whatever medium they are able to use ...
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... virus with perfect breeding conditions . Since the international acceptance of the IBM Personal Computer as a technical standard , the vast majority of personal computers had become functionally identical : a homogeneous ' species ' had ...
... virus with perfect breeding conditions . Since the international acceptance of the IBM Personal Computer as a technical standard , the vast majority of personal computers had become functionally identical : a homogeneous ' species ' had ...
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... Computer viruses are , like biological viruses , replicators in a special sense , because they are parasitical ... virus that fits in exactly with the genotype / phenotype model . The virus program can be thought of as the genotype , and ...
... Computer viruses are , like biological viruses , replicators in a special sense , because they are parasitical ... virus that fits in exactly with the genotype / phenotype model . The virus program can be thought of as the genotype , and ...
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