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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... symbols , one that operated quite separately from the real world . As Andrew Hodges , a mathematician and biographer of Alan Turing , put it : ' A rule such as " x + y = y + x " could be regarded as a rule for a game , as in chess ...
... symbols , one that operated quite separately from the real world . As Andrew Hodges , a mathematician and biographer of Alan Turing , put it : ' A rule such as " x + y = y + x " could be regarded as a rule for a game , as in chess ...
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... symbol manipulation and computation : the two were seen as equivalent , with the most familiar computation being the form that manipulated mathem- atical symbols . Naom Chomsky's book Syntactic Structures ' in many respects founded ...
... symbol manipulation and computation : the two were seen as equivalent , with the most familiar computation being the form that manipulated mathem- atical symbols . Naom Chomsky's book Syntactic Structures ' in many respects founded ...
Pagina 152
... symbols ( a number which , though extremely vast , is not infinite ) : in other words , all that it is given to express , in all languages . Everything : the minutely detailed history of the future , the archangels ' autobiographies ...
... symbols ( a number which , though extremely vast , is not infinite ) : in other words , all that it is given to express , in all languages . Everything : the minutely detailed history of the future , the archangels ' autobiographies ...
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