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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... never been a totally secure view of reality , certainly not in the industrial era of history . People say that the world is not as real than it used to be . Well , to adapt what an editor of Punch said in response to a tiresome ...
... never been a totally secure view of reality , certainly not in the industrial era of history . People say that the world is not as real than it used to be . Well , to adapt what an editor of Punch said in response to a tiresome ...
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... never seen before , and at first he is wondrous thrilled at her likeness to himself ; but then , slightly scared of her as well , he cries to all the men about him , " Behold ! I can look upon her face , which is something she cannot do ...
... never seen before , and at first he is wondrous thrilled at her likeness to himself ; but then , slightly scared of her as well , he cries to all the men about him , " Behold ! I can look upon her face , which is something she cannot do ...
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... never declared , never truly joined , never properly finished . It was what we had wanted it to be , never what it was . ' In our fear of the real , of anything that is too real , we have created a gigantic simulator.'19 Baudrillard's ...
... never declared , never truly joined , never properly finished . It was what we had wanted it to be , never what it was . ' In our fear of the real , of anything that is too real , we have created a gigantic simulator.'19 Baudrillard's ...
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abstract Alan Turing argued artificial intelligence artificial reality Baudrillard become behaviour called catastrophe theory cellular automata century chaos chaos theory complex computer graphics computer virus concept Copenhagen interpretation create cultural cyberspace demonstrated described designed discover electronic emerged ENIAC environment example exist experience explore fiction film hackers human hyperreal idea imagination industry interactive interface language Leary London machine Mandelbrot manipulation mathematical mathematician means mechanical memory metaphor modern movement narrative nature objects observation Olestra Oxford paradigm patterns Penguin perhaps personal computer phenomena philosopher physical physicist picture possible postmodernism principle produce published quantum realm reproduce result scientific scientists screen seemed sense SIGGRAPH simply simulation sort space Stewart Brand structure subatomic Sutherland symbols television Timothy Leary truth Turing Turing's turn universe virtual reality virus words wrote Xanadu