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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... philosopher José Ortega y Gasset , who gave the theory its name and formal description , put it . There is only one reality , but that is the reality of each individual's life . This idea he expressed in the nostrum : ' I am I and my ...
... philosopher José Ortega y Gasset , who gave the theory its name and formal description , put it . There is only one reality , but that is the reality of each individual's life . This idea he expressed in the nostrum : ' I am I and my ...
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... philosopher as brilliant as Aristotle could be so wrong . Then came the revelation : Aristotle was not wrong , he was using a different set of concepts and practices , a different theoretical framework , and within that framework he was ...
... philosopher as brilliant as Aristotle could be so wrong . Then came the revelation : Aristotle was not wrong , he was using a different set of concepts and practices , a different theoretical framework , and within that framework he was ...
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... philosophers and theoretical physicists have struggled mightily to come up with a new paradigm , a more acceptable interpretation of the ' quantum reality ' of the subatomic world . It has been this struggle that has alerted the shamans ...
... philosophers and theoretical physicists have struggled mightily to come up with a new paradigm , a more acceptable interpretation of the ' quantum reality ' of the subatomic world . It has been this struggle that has alerted the shamans ...
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