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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... early on in the history of the virtual reality . It was , perhaps , inevitable , given the interest of Leary . It ... earliest published references to virtual reality came in a book written by Stewart Brand entitled The Media Lab ...
... early on in the history of the virtual reality . It was , perhaps , inevitable , given the interest of Leary . It ... earliest published references to virtual reality came in a book written by Stewart Brand entitled The Media Lab ...
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... early 1949 , they began to play around with the oscilloscope screens that were used to display system information . They noticed that , by issuing appropriate instructions to the computer , the screens could be manipulated to create ...
... early 1949 , they began to play around with the oscilloscope screens that were used to display system information . They noticed that , by issuing appropriate instructions to the computer , the screens could be manipulated to create ...
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... early development of chaos theory seems uncharitable . Even less charitable is the fact that catastrophe theory was excluded from nearly every history of chaos , despite the fact that it has so much in common - Thom's theory even has a ...
... early development of chaos theory seems uncharitable . Even less charitable is the fact that catastrophe theory was excluded from nearly every history of chaos , despite the fact that it has so much in common - Thom's theory even has a ...
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abstract Alan Turing argued artificial intelligence artificial reality Baudrillard become behaviour called catastrophe theory cellular automata century chaos chaos theory complex computer graphics computer virus concept Copenhagen interpretation create cultural cyberspace demonstrated described designed discover electronic emerged ENIAC environment example exist experience explore fiction film hackers human hyperreal idea imagination industry interactive interface language Leary London machine Mandelbrot manipulation mathematical mathematician means mechanical memory metaphor modern movement narrative nature objects observation Olestra Oxford paradigm patterns Penguin perhaps personal computer phenomena philosopher physical physicist picture possible postmodernism principle produce published quantum realm reproduce result scientific scientists screen seemed sense SIGGRAPH simply simulation sort space Stewart Brand structure subatomic Sutherland symbols television Timothy Leary truth Turing Turing's turn universe virtual reality virus words wrote Xanadu