Virtual Worlds: A Journey in Hype and HyperrealityIn 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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A Journey in Hype and Hyperreality Benjamin Woolley. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Like any other, this book is, in a sense, a 'hypertext', a text created out of other texts, out of the links that join the great body of work concerning the areas it ...
A Journey in Hype and Hyperreality Benjamin Woolley. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Like any other, this book is, in a sense, a 'hypertext', a text created out of other texts, out of the links that join the great body of work concerning the areas it ...
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A Journey in Hype and Hyperreality Benjamin Woolley. INTRODUCTION. In our days everything seems pregnant with its contrary. Karl Marx, 1856.1 On 7 May, 1987, the US multinational Proctor & Gamble submitted Olestra, a new food substitute ...
A Journey in Hype and Hyperreality Benjamin Woolley. INTRODUCTION. In our days everything seems pregnant with its contrary. Karl Marx, 1856.1 On 7 May, 1987, the US multinational Proctor & Gamble submitted Olestra, a new food substitute ...
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A Journey in Hype and Hyperreality Benjamin Woolley. closing months of 1991, as the Soviet Union broke apart, the fate of the embalmed body of Lenin, which had been lying in state since 1924, was in doubt. Some had questioned whether ...
A Journey in Hype and Hyperreality Benjamin Woolley. closing months of 1991, as the Soviet Union broke apart, the fate of the embalmed body of Lenin, which had been lying in state since 1924, was in doubt. Some had questioned whether ...
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A Journey in Hype and Hyperreality Benjamin Woolley. Science in the Public Interest, quoted the results of tests using rats which showed that nearly a half of the rats fed on Olestra died during the period of the experiment, compared ...
A Journey in Hype and Hyperreality Benjamin Woolley. Science in the Public Interest, quoted the results of tests using rats which showed that nearly a half of the rats fed on Olestra died during the period of the experiment, compared ...
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A Journey in Hype and Hyperreality Benjamin Woolley. replace it with one of our own making. But equally the industrial era has been about the discovery of reality. The ability to manipulate nature, to turn its operation to our own ends ...
A Journey in Hype and Hyperreality Benjamin Woolley. replace it with one of our own making. But equally the industrial era has been about the discovery of reality. The ability to manipulate nature, to turn its operation to our own ends ...
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