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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... Timothy 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 ...
... Timothy 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 ...
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... Timothy Leary, the shaman, and John Perry Barlow, the minstrel, there was Esther Dyson, the editor of an industry newsletter and a voice of caution, William Bricken of the University of Washington's Human Interface Technology Laboratory ...
... Timothy Leary, the shaman, and John Perry Barlow, the minstrel, there was Esther Dyson, the editor of an industry newsletter and a voice of caution, William Bricken of the University of Washington's Human Interface Technology Laboratory ...
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... Timothy Leary as 'the most dangerous man in the world'. Dangerous or not, he is one of the most beguiling men in the ... Leary's early life is the story more of significant departures than meetings. He was born in 1920 to a fun-loving ...
... Timothy Leary as 'the most dangerous man in the world'. Dangerous or not, he is one of the most beguiling men in the ... Leary's early life is the story more of significant departures than meetings. He was born in 1920 to a fun-loving ...
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... Timothy Leary, Flashbacks, Los Angeles: Tarcher, 1983, p. 40. 5 Stevens, 1989, p. 263. 6 The Media Laboratory 5th anniversary, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT 1990. 7 Stewart Brand, The Media Lab: InVenting the Future at MIT, London: Penguin ...
... Timothy Leary, Flashbacks, Los Angeles: Tarcher, 1983, p. 40. 5 Stevens, 1989, p. 263. 6 The Media Laboratory 5th anniversary, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT 1990. 7 Stewart Brand, The Media Lab: InVenting the Future at MIT, London: Penguin ...
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... Timothy Leary, 'Quark of the decade?', Mondo 2000, Fall 7, p. 52. 19 Carpenter, 12 March1991, p. 37. 20 Phil LoPiccolo, 'Virtual rewards', Computer Graphics World, 14 (9) September 1991, p. 6. SIMULATION Trying to trace the origins of ...
... Timothy Leary, 'Quark of the decade?', Mondo 2000, Fall 7, p. 52. 19 Carpenter, 12 March1991, p. 37. 20 Phil LoPiccolo, 'Virtual rewards', Computer Graphics World, 14 (9) September 1991, p. 6. SIMULATION Trying to trace the origins of ...
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