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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... mathematical model ) . But Sutherland was not all that concerned with practical limitations . He had established the principle that any shape that could be described mathematically could exist in this computer - generated space , and ...
... mathematical model ) . But Sutherland was not all that concerned with practical limitations . He had established the principle that any shape that could be described mathematically could exist in this computer - generated space , and ...
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... mathematical treatise under the collective nom de plume Nicolas Bourbaki , a name of obscure origins , perhaps in part a black joke about the French general Charles Bourbaki who led a disastrous campaign in the Franco - Prussian War ...
... mathematical treatise under the collective nom de plume Nicolas Bourbaki , a name of obscure origins , perhaps in part a black joke about the French general Charles Bourbaki who led a disastrous campaign in the Franco - Prussian War ...
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... mathematical objects have independ- ent existence , and the Mandelbrot set is a striking example of this . Mandelbrot did not draw it in the way that an artist might draw a picture of a warty potato . But neither is it demonstrably a ...
... mathematical objects have independ- ent existence , and the Mandelbrot set is a striking example of this . Mandelbrot did not draw it in the way that an artist might draw a picture of a warty potato . But neither is it demonstrably a ...
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