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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... social intercourse might take place , where much of their information would come from . They also knew that it was linked into the networks of international finance , commerce and government - as demonstrated by the growing number of ...
... social intercourse might take place , where much of their information would come from . They also knew that it was linked into the networks of international finance , commerce and government - as demonstrated by the growing number of ...
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... social sciences such as the sort of sociology and anthropology that tends to be taught in British universities have attempted to use empirical means to analyse social experience , and have had some success explaining the mechanisms of ...
... social sciences such as the sort of sociology and anthropology that tends to be taught in British universities have attempted to use empirical means to analyse social experience , and have had some success explaining the mechanisms of ...
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... social phenomena that could be simulated using a relatively simple computer model . Could this be evidence that reality is not confined to the human- free ' nature ' studied by conventional science , that there are mathematical laws ...
... social phenomena that could be simulated using a relatively simple computer model . Could this be evidence that reality is not confined to the human- free ' nature ' studied by conventional science , that there are mathematical laws ...
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