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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... future computers ( he was writing , it should be recalled , before the age of silicon chips ) . But at least this error seems to work in his favour , especially since AI researchers have , in their increasingly desperate search for new ...
... future computers ( he was writing , it should be recalled , before the age of silicon chips ) . But at least this error seems to work in his favour , especially since AI researchers have , in their increasingly desperate search for new ...
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... future of television - a future it sees as under threat from the international debate to determine the TV broadcasting standard for the twenty - first century . The problem with the debate for the Media Lab's founder , Nicholas ...
... future of television - a future it sees as under threat from the international debate to determine the TV broadcasting standard for the twenty - first century . The problem with the debate for the Media Lab's founder , Nicholas ...
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... future ' , General William C. Westmore- land , the US's Chief of Staff , told the Association of the United States Army in 1969 , ' enemy forces will be located , tracked and targeted almost instantaneously through the use of data ...
... future ' , General William C. Westmore- land , the US's Chief of Staff , told the Association of the United States Army in 1969 , ' enemy forces will be located , tracked and targeted almost instantaneously through the use of data ...
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