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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... Leary, the Harvard academic and patron of the 1960s drug culture, who invited a generation to 'tune in, turn on, drop out', and may well have attended enough meetings held by non-human beings to be in a position to make the comparison ...
... Leary, the Harvard academic and patron of the 1960s drug culture, who invited a generation to 'tune in, turn on, drop out', and may well have attended enough meetings held by non-human beings to be in a position to make the comparison ...
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... Leary as a 'beloved digital engineer') and Brenda Laurel (another of Leary's beloved digital engineers). There must have been something in the water at Sunnyvale, because those who worked there in the early 1980s went on to shape the ...
... Leary as a 'beloved digital engineer') and Brenda Laurel (another of Leary's beloved digital engineers). There must have been something in the water at Sunnyvale, because those who worked there in the early 1980s went on to shape the ...
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... Leary as 'the most dangerous man in the world'. Dangerous or not, he is one of the most beguiling men in the world ... Leary's early life is the story more of significant departures than meetings. He was born in 1920 to a fun-loving army ...
... Leary as 'the most dangerous man in the world'. Dangerous or not, he is one of the most beguiling men in the world ... Leary's early life is the story more of significant departures than meetings. He was born in 1920 to a fun-loving army ...
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... Leary to give up his job and take off to Europe with his children. There he wandered aimlessly between lecturing jobs, fetching up in Florence where an old Berkeley friend, Frank Barron, came to see him with a bottle of whisky and news ...
... Leary to give up his job and take off to Europe with his children. There he wandered aimlessly between lecturing jobs, fetching up in Florence where an old Berkeley friend, Frank Barron, came to see him with a bottle of whisky and news ...
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... Leary himself became a more and more active participant in them, what had begun as a putative programme of serious scientific research began to look more and more like very unscientific fun. It also showed alarming signs of developing ...
... Leary himself became a more and more active participant in them, what had begun as a putative programme of serious scientific research began to look more and more like very unscientific fun. It also showed alarming signs of developing ...
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