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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... meant a person . Following Turing's insight , it meant a 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 ...
... meant a person . Following Turing's insight , it meant a 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 ...
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... meant that it was possible to examine the problems of communicating a message , of distinguishing ' signal ' ( the original message ) from ' noise ' ( interference ) , without resorting to semantics - what the sender of the message meant ...
... meant that it was possible to examine the problems of communicating a message , of distinguishing ' signal ' ( the original message ) from ' noise ' ( interference ) , without resorting to semantics - what the sender of the message meant ...
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... meant that though they could never precisely predict the individual behaviour of real bodies , they could provide useful approximations for lots of different kinds of bodies , from falling apples to planets . Furthermore , Newton ...
... meant that though they could never precisely predict the individual behaviour of real bodies , they could provide useful approximations for lots of different kinds of bodies , from falling apples to planets . Furthermore , Newton ...
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