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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... scientists , but their method of announcing the discovery , hastened by rumours of a breakthrough at Brigham Young University in the nearby city of Provo , was cause of some concern . Various mechanisms exist for announcing scientific ...
... scientists , but their method of announcing the discovery , hastened by rumours of a breakthrough at Brigham Young University in the nearby city of Provo , was cause of some concern . Various mechanisms exist for announcing scientific ...
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... scientists question them at their peril . Peter Duesberg , a molecular biologist at the University of California at Berkeley shocked researchers by announcing in 1987 that AIDS was not caused by the virus HIV . When he made the claim ...
... scientists question them at their peril . Peter Duesberg , a molecular biologist at the University of California at Berkeley shocked researchers by announcing in 1987 that AIDS was not caused by the virus HIV . When he made the claim ...
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... scientists to tell whether their theories are made valid because they accord with reality , or because they accord with other scientists and funding agencies . Lyotard's argument in the Condition of Postmodernity was that , with the ...
... scientists to tell whether their theories are made valid because they accord with reality , or because they accord with other scientists and funding agencies . Lyotard's argument in the Condition of Postmodernity was that , with the ...
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