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 68
... concept of ' mind ' had the same confused relation to the body as the visitor's concept of ' university ' had to the buildings he visited . Calling a piece of physical machinery a ' word processor ' - or even a ' computer ' - could be ...
... concept of ' mind ' had the same confused relation to the body as the visitor's concept of ' university ' had to the buildings he visited . Calling a piece of physical machinery a ' word processor ' - or even a ' computer ' - could be ...
Pagina 69
... concept of information currently resists any really precise definition . Relative to information we are in a condition something like the condition of 17th century scientists regarding energy . We know there is an important concept here ...
... concept of information currently resists any really precise definition . Relative to information we are in a condition something like the condition of 17th century scientists regarding energy . We know there is an important concept here ...
Pagina 102
... concept rather than a physical human being to have . Given that no politician could have possibly met ' the voter ' , he shows a rude presumption of the intimacy of his acquaintanceship . Another is the song in the Disney cartoon Dumbo ...
... concept rather than a physical human being to have . Given that no politician could have possibly met ' the voter ' , he shows a rude presumption of the intimacy of his acquaintanceship . Another is the song in the Disney cartoon Dumbo ...
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