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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... material and mental . The laws of nature only apply to material substance . Mental substance acts according to a will of its own , human free will . The name most closely associated with dualism is Descartes , the man from whom ...
... material and mental . The laws of nature only apply to material substance . Mental substance acts according to a will of its own , human free will . The name most closely associated with dualism is Descartes , the man from whom ...
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... material value . However , for economic reasons , this was a system that the British government could not sustain while the economic order collapsed around it . One might have thought this was the time when something as fixed and ...
... material value . However , for economic reasons , this was a system that the British government could not sustain while the economic order collapsed around it . One might have thought this was the time when something as fixed and ...
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... material world by searching for it elswhere . Modernism was about disenchantment with material truth and the search for abstract truth . It developed its own self- destructive dynamic to show how the physical world was being 176 Virtual ...
... material world by searching for it elswhere . Modernism was about disenchantment with material truth and the search for abstract truth . It developed its own self- destructive dynamic to show how the physical world was being 176 Virtual ...
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