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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... demonstrated a method for constructing shapes that could not be described using Euclid's geometry , the first sign that classical and undisputed laws stretching back to the third century BC might not be the end of the matter . By the ...
... demonstrated a method for constructing shapes that could not be described using Euclid's geometry , the first sign that classical and undisputed laws stretching back to the third century BC might not be the end of the matter . By the ...
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... demonstrated that all the universal constructor's complexity could result from the application of the simplest rules . It was because of the success of these simple rules to produce such patterns that the man who devised them , the ...
... demonstrated that all the universal constructor's complexity could result from the application of the simplest rules . It was because of the success of these simple rules to produce such patterns that the man who devised them , the ...
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... demonstrated by the growing number of stories about hackers gaining unauthorized access to company and defence systems using the same basic equipment . And it was the world infected by the computer virus , spread by the exchange of ...
... demonstrated by the growing number of stories about hackers gaining unauthorized access to company and defence systems using the same basic equipment . And it was the world infected by the computer virus , spread by the exchange of ...
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