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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... 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 ' butterfly catastrophe ' . What , then , happened to catastrophe theory ? Once an ...
... 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 ' butterfly catastrophe ' . What , then , happened to catastrophe theory ? Once an ...
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... fact , argued Ryle , when we talk about the mind , we are not talking about a separate ' world ' , we are simply using that sort of language to describe the property of a particular way we or others behave . Ryle's attempt to exorcise ...
... fact , argued Ryle , when we talk about the mind , we are not talking about a separate ' world ' , we are simply using that sort of language to describe the property of a particular way we or others behave . Ryle's attempt to exorcise ...
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... fact that it is the " real " country , all of " real " America , which is Disneyland . . . . Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real , when in fact all of Los Angeles and the America ...
... fact that it is the " real " country , all of " real " America , which is Disneyland . . . . Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real , when in fact all of Los Angeles and the America ...
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