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 77
... universe is a computation . To some extent , this is nothing more than an example of an opportunistic metaphor . The idea of the universe being a machine goes back at least to the invention of the orrery , and each age simply compares ...
... universe is a computation . To some extent , this is nothing more than an example of an opportunistic metaphor . The idea of the universe being a machine goes back at least to the invention of the orrery , and each age simply compares ...
Pagina 78
... universe . Put another way , perhaps the universe is really , not metaphorically , a Turing machine , a pattern of perpetual computation . - Thought about in detail , this idea is difficult to visualize . A Turing machine is easily ...
... universe . Put another way , perhaps the universe is really , not metaphorically , a Turing machine , a pattern of perpetual computation . - Thought about in detail , this idea is difficult to visualize . A Turing machine is easily ...
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... universe ( or a change in one or some of an infinite number of parallel universes ) . Nevertheless , Everett argued that it made much more sense of the subatomic realm than the Copenhagen interpretation . If you can swallow the premise ...
... universe ( or a change in one or some of an infinite number of parallel universes ) . Nevertheless , Everett argued that it made much more sense of the subatomic realm than the Copenhagen interpretation . If you can swallow the premise ...
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