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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... particular circumstance . Bush's machine for working out such equations was a room- sized deck of rods and cogs he called a ' differential analyzer ' . This provided a means of analysing the results produced by a particular differential ...
... particular circumstance . Bush's machine for working out such equations was a room- sized deck of rods and cogs he called a ' differential analyzer ' . This provided a means of analysing the results produced by a particular differential ...
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... particular texts called up and projected on the screens by pressing a particular configuration of keys . Thus far he had described a not particularly interesting automated library reading desk . However , he also envisaged the levers ...
... particular texts called up and projected on the screens by pressing a particular configuration of keys . Thus far he had described a not particularly interesting automated library reading desk . However , he also envisaged the levers ...
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... particular point at any particular time . At around the same time , Bohr and others began to try to solve these equations not by treating the waves as real , physical phenomena but as waves of probability . It was a startling strategy ...
... particular point at any particular time . At around the same time , Bohr and others began to try to solve these equations not by treating the waves as real , physical phenomena but as waves of probability . It was a startling strategy ...
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