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 198
... signs are used the way , say , a picture relates to what it depicts , or a sentence refers to whatever it is about ... signs cease to signify anything real . Culture is about producing signs that signify nothing , that have only spurious ...
... signs are used the way , say , a picture relates to what it depicts , or a sentence refers to whatever it is about ... signs cease to signify anything real . Culture is about producing signs that signify nothing , that have only spurious ...
Pagina 199
... signs , and what sustains the consumer society is the ability of manufacturers to perform this manipulation , to manufacture meaning . The same applies to culture as a whole , not just the manufacturing of consumer goods - politics ...
... signs , and what sustains the consumer society is the ability of manufacturers to perform this manipulation , to manufacture meaning . The same applies to culture as a whole , not just the manufacturing of consumer goods - politics ...
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... signs were hopeful . Several scientists reported that they had found signs of cold fusion , ' despite the jeers of mainstream physicists and the general dismissal in the mass media ' , as one alternative science journal put it . But ...
... signs were hopeful . Several scientists reported that they had found signs of cold fusion , ' despite the jeers of mainstream physicists and the general dismissal in the mass media ' , as one alternative science journal put it . But ...
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