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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... meaning poured into it . Computing has provided some of that meaning , initially a quite modest meaning , but increasingly a cargo worthy of its carrier . IBM introduced ' virtual memory ' with two new mainframe computers , the 370/158 ...
... meaning poured into it . Computing has provided some of that meaning , initially a quite modest meaning , but increasingly a cargo worthy of its carrier . IBM introduced ' virtual memory ' with two new mainframe computers , the 370/158 ...
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... meaning , could be arranged , but about specifying the semantics , the way that meanings are generated . ' Using his transformational rules ' , wrote the mathematician John Casti , ' Chomsky was able to show that ambiguous sentences ...
... meaning , could be arranged , but about specifying the semantics , the way that meanings are generated . ' Using his transformational rules ' , wrote the mathematician John Casti , ' Chomsky was able to show that ambiguous sentences ...
Pagina 199
... meaning ' , there would be no product , the chocolate bar would be meaningless . Desire , then , becomes a matter of meaning , of the manipulation of signs , and what sustains the consumer society is the ability of manufacturers to ...
... meaning ' , there would be no product , the chocolate bar would be meaningless . Desire , then , becomes a matter of meaning , of the manipulation of signs , and what sustains the consumer society is the ability of manufacturers to ...
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