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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... ideal by inventing a host of devices , from lightweight homes through streamlined cars to the geodesic dome that , thanks to Disney's EPCOT theme park , has since become a symbol of futurism . He also produced what he called the World ...
... ideal by inventing a host of devices , from lightweight homes through streamlined cars to the geodesic dome that , thanks to Disney's EPCOT theme park , has since become a symbol of futurism . He also produced what he called the World ...
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... ideal objects such as frictionless bodies . This meant that though they could never precisely predict the individual behaviour of real bodies , they could provide useful approximations for lots of different kinds of bodies , from ...
... ideal objects such as frictionless bodies . This meant that though they could never precisely predict the individual behaviour of real bodies , they could provide useful approximations for lots of different kinds of bodies , from ...
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... ideal , some truth , that we dimly perceive through our imagination . However , this intuition is not sufficient to prove that even if this ideal does exist that it is computable . This is not to say the computer's use as an expressive ...
... ideal , some truth , that we dimly perceive through our imagination . However , this intuition is not sufficient to prove that even if this ideal does exist that it is computable . This is not to say the computer's use as an expressive ...
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