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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... turn this into something intelligible . It could do this by producing three beeps on a loud speaker ( computer jargon allows such oddities as audio displays ) . More likely , it will turn the electrical impulses into a varying current ...
... turn this into something intelligible . It could do this by producing three beeps on a loud speaker ( computer jargon allows such oddities as audio displays ) . More likely , it will turn the electrical impulses into a varying current ...
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... turn the machine into an adding machine . Similarly , it could be turned into a machine that performed any of the basic operations of arithmetic . It followed , therefore , that there was a table , or set of tables , that could be drawn ...
... turn the machine into an adding machine . Similarly , it could be turned into a machine that performed any of the basic operations of arithmetic . It followed , therefore , that there was a table , or set of tables , that could be drawn ...
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... turn , would attract more users . The network of databases would be set up along the lines of the franchising network of McDonalds , where the infrastructure grows in pace with the market , avoiding the need for costly and risky long ...
... turn , would attract more users . The network of databases would be set up along the lines of the franchising network of McDonalds , where the infrastructure grows in pace with the market , avoiding the need for costly and risky long ...
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