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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... literature as a whole , the idea of fiction as a metaphor for reality , a way of exploring it and making sense of it . The memory palace was , at least from the point of view of the preacher , a way of modelling , as it might now be ...
... literature as a whole , the idea of fiction as a metaphor for reality , a way of exploring it and making sense of it . The memory palace was , at least from the point of view of the preacher , a way of modelling , as it might now be ...
Pagina 155
... Literature is for everyone . Anyone can create literature . The underlying principle of the interactive novel is not that the computer becomes the user's pet author , writing books that suit its owner's particular tastes , but that the ...
... Literature is for everyone . Anyone can create literature . The underlying principle of the interactive novel is not that the computer becomes the user's pet author , writing books that suit its owner's particular tastes , but that the ...
Pagina 249
... literature . The scientific perspective of the computer as a ' looking glass into a mathematical universe ' is , however , different . Here , it does have some claim to revealing a reality that was previously hidden . In 1990 , NASA's ...
... literature . The scientific perspective of the computer as a ' looking glass into a mathematical universe ' is , however , different . Here , it does have some claim to revealing a reality that was previously hidden . In 1990 , NASA's ...
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