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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... physics are " mere ideas " separated from the " real " by an unbridgable gulf'.18 His objection to quantum mechanics was not its implications for materiality , but the idea that the physical world should be regarded as a wave function ...
... physics are " mere ideas " separated from the " real " by an unbridgable gulf'.18 His objection to quantum mechanics was not its implications for materiality , but the idea that the physical world should be regarded as a wave function ...
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... quantum mechanics , ' argued the physicist Sir Rudolf Peierls . ' There are a number of people who are unhappy about this , and are trying to find something else . But nobody has found anything else which is consistent yet , so when ...
... quantum mechanics , ' argued the physicist Sir Rudolf Peierls . ' There are a number of people who are unhappy about this , and are trying to find something else . But nobody has found anything else which is consistent yet , so when ...
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... quantum mechanics , 218–24 and culture , 233-4 interpretations , 224-35 quantum memory , 227-8 quantum reality , 244 reaction - diffusion model , 85-7 real time , 144 reality , 2 , 4 and fiction , 168 and science , 213 and war , 190-5 ...
... quantum mechanics , 218–24 and culture , 233-4 interpretations , 224-35 quantum memory , 227-8 quantum reality , 244 reaction - diffusion model , 85-7 real time , 144 reality , 2 , 4 and fiction , 168 and science , 213 and war , 190-5 ...
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