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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Pagina 67
... idea of the universal machine , a machine that can be lots of different machines ; in fact , a machine that is capable of being any machine capable of performing a computation . The idea of an abstract , immaterial machine is a ...
... idea of the universal machine , a machine that can be lots of different machines ; in fact , a machine that is capable of being any machine capable of performing a computation . The idea of an abstract , immaterial machine is a ...
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... idea that remains unexamined is that of ' information ' . Since computing is sometimes called ' information technology ' , this may seem to be a rather perverse omission . Much is made of the idea of information in discussions about the ...
... idea that remains unexamined is that of ' information ' . Since computing is sometimes called ' information technology ' , this may seem to be a rather perverse omission . Much is made of the idea of information in discussions about the ...
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... idea that Gödel's theorem in some way proves the impossibility of mechanical minds is not new . The British philosopher John Lucas introduced the idea in his 1961 paper ' Minds , machines , and Gödel'.20 ' At one's first and simplest ...
... idea that Gödel's theorem in some way proves the impossibility of mechanical minds is not new . The British philosopher John Lucas introduced the idea in his 1961 paper ' Minds , machines , and Gödel'.20 ' At one's first and simplest ...
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