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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... expression , to find the underlying ' meaning ' of simulation , though it was , as we shall see , the developers of virtual reality who were to give the idea its most forceful expression . The more prosaic title of Sutherland's 1968 ...
... expression , to find the underlying ' meaning ' of simulation , though it was , as we shall see , the developers of virtual reality who were to give the idea its most forceful expression . The more prosaic title of Sutherland's 1968 ...
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... expression of our genes . Dawkins called his book The Selfish Gene because , from a zoological perspective , living organisms are the product and servant of their genes . The genes that produce the most effective phenotypes for ...
... expression of our genes . Dawkins called his book The Selfish Gene because , from a zoological perspective , living organisms are the product and servant of their genes . The genes that produce the most effective phenotypes for ...
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... expression . Every book or meeting on postmodernism begins with attempts to define it . In 1985 , at a conference held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London , that task fell to Jean - François Lyotard . No one could have been ...
... expression . Every book or meeting on postmodernism begins with attempts to define it . In 1985 , at a conference held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London , that task fell to Jean - François Lyotard . No one could have been ...
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