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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... political change that simply needs further technological progress and some political encouragement to fulfill its promise . After being funded for two decades following the war by the American military , a ' funny thing happened ' to ...
... political change that simply needs further technological progress and some political encouragement to fulfill its promise . After being funded for two decades following the war by the American military , a ' funny thing happened ' to ...
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... Politicians wilfully ascribe all sorts of attributes to this ' voter ' - intelligence , political discernment , impatience with the party in power / opposition - which it is quite impossible for an abstract concept rather than a ...
... Politicians wilfully ascribe all sorts of attributes to this ' voter ' - intelligence , political discernment , impatience with the party in power / opposition - which it is quite impossible for an abstract concept rather than a ...
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... political science , for example , or sociology or literary criticism.26 Now , he argued , the ' discourses ' are dissolving into a new kind of writing called simply ' theory ' . ' This new kind of discourse , generally associated with ...
... political science , for example , or sociology or literary criticism.26 Now , he argued , the ' discourses ' are dissolving into a new kind of writing called simply ' theory ' . ' This new kind of discourse , generally associated with ...
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