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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Pagina 65
... perform what sounded like quite sophisticated functions , such as recognizing particular patterns of marks , and looking up the pattern in a ' table of behaviour ' to see what it should do next . In fact , the actual mechanisms needed ...
... perform what sounded like quite sophisticated functions , such as recognizing particular patterns of marks , and looking up the pattern in a ' table of behaviour ' to see what it should do next . In fact , the actual mechanisms needed ...
Pagina 67
... perform any computation . The discovery that there could be a computer that could compute any computable number does ... perform calculations . But the development of calculating machines had no need of Turing's theoretical designs . All ...
... perform any computation . The discovery that there could be a computer that could compute any computable number does ... perform calculations . But the development of calculating machines had no need of Turing's theoretical designs . All ...
Pagina 111
... perform some pretty weird thought experiments , including one designed to show how , when the universe cools down , as cosmologists predict it will , so the energy needed to perform a computation will fall . Moravec outlines a plan for ...
... perform some pretty weird thought experiments , including one designed to show how , when the universe cools down , as cosmologists predict it will , so the energy needed to perform a computation will fall . Moravec outlines a plan for ...
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