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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... machine age ' of the prewar years , an attitude that has persisted well into the latter part of the century . Chaplin both submitted to technology – it was his first talkie - and attacked its dehumanizing influence . That same year saw ...
... machine age ' of the prewar years , an attitude that has persisted well into the latter part of the century . Chaplin both submitted to technology – it was his first talkie - and attacked its dehumanizing influence . That same year saw ...
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... machine : he had proved , in other words , that it was possible to mechanize what had previously only been possible by means of mental effort . The machine had crossed a critical barrier . Before , machines had taken over the body , now ...
... machine : he had proved , in other words , that it was possible to mechanize what had previously only been possible by means of mental effort . The machine had crossed a critical barrier . Before , machines had taken over the body , now ...
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... machine ' , in the abstract Turing sense , that can be used to generate all the grammatical sentences in a given language . By specifying this machine , Chomsky aimed to provide a formal method for specifying what can be said in that ...
... machine ' , in the abstract Turing sense , that can be used to generate all the grammatical sentences in a given language . By specifying this machine , Chomsky aimed to provide a formal method for specifying what can be said in that ...
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