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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... moral tract , Computer Lib is as crude as its title would suggest . Nelson used placard language , right down to the use of capitals for emphasis : ' THIS BOOK IS FOR PERSONAL FREEDOM AND AGAINST RESTRICTION AND COERCION ' ( and against ...
... moral tract , Computer Lib is as crude as its title would suggest . Nelson used placard language , right down to the use of capitals for emphasis : ' THIS BOOK IS FOR PERSONAL FREEDOM AND AGAINST RESTRICTION AND COERCION ' ( and against ...
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... moral resonance . It was a resonance that was easily transferred to the computer virus . Like AIDS , we were all threatened with being tainted by the hacker's lack of moral hygiene . Infection was guilt . The technological as well as ...
... moral resonance . It was a resonance that was easily transferred to the computer virus . Like AIDS , we were all threatened with being tainted by the hacker's lack of moral hygiene . Infection was guilt . The technological as well as ...
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... moral and political issues.11 Quantum reality may be strange , but it simply has no relevance to the world most of us experience . I explained to an acquaintance that , unobserved , the sofa he was sitting on was smeared across the ...
... moral and political issues.11 Quantum reality may be strange , but it simply has no relevance to the world most of us experience . I explained to an acquaintance that , unobserved , the sofa he was sitting on was smeared across the ...
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