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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... surface structure from several deep structures , while semantically equivalent sentences of the sort involving just a change from active to passive voice could have different surface structures emerging from the same deep structure.'10 ...
... surface structure from several deep structures , while semantically equivalent sentences of the sort involving just a change from active to passive voice could have different surface structures emerging from the same deep structure.'10 ...
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... surface is covered in a clutter of papers and books , every vertical surface is covered in mathematical graffiti . A Hollywood set designer could not have done a better job at recreating what most of us would imagine a mathematician's ...
... surface is covered in a clutter of papers and books , every vertical surface is covered in mathematical graffiti . A Hollywood set designer could not have done a better job at recreating what most of us would imagine a mathematician's ...
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... surface . They even claimed that the computer - generated pictures of Jupiter's Great Red Spot were sufficiently detailed to validate a mathematical model that explained its formation.14 NASA was , of course , one of the most important ...
... surface . They even claimed that the computer - generated pictures of Jupiter's Great Red Spot were sufficiently detailed to validate a mathematical model that explained its formation.14 NASA was , of course , one of the most important ...
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