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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... living creature had been seen to emerge . This conclusion may seem to be a classic example of prescientific thinking , the biological equivalent of flat earthism . But in many ways the more scientific accounts that emerged from ...
... living creature had been seen to emerge . This conclusion may seem to be a classic example of prescientific thinking , the biological equivalent of flat earthism . But in many ways the more scientific accounts that emerged from ...
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... living organism . Perhaps Harvey was nearer the truth in seeing that it was the level of organization of matter that was key . How could the formless mass he discovered through the rather brutal demise of his king's bitches turn itself ...
... living organism . Perhaps Harvey was nearer the truth in seeing that it was the level of organization of matter that was key . How could the formless mass he discovered through the rather brutal demise of his king's bitches turn itself ...
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... living creature ) that are nevertheless stable , even self - sustaining . A more mundane example explored by Bak is a pile of sand which , despite being made up of nothing more than independently acting grains , nevertheless always ...
... living creature ) that are nevertheless stable , even self - sustaining . A more mundane example explored by Bak is a pile of sand which , despite being made up of nothing more than independently acting grains , nevertheless always ...
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