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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... argue that they cannot assert reality to be a myth because that would be to assert that what is real is that reality is a myth, which cannot be asserted as there is no reality (because it is a myth). I want to show that such denials of ...
... argue that they cannot assert reality to be a myth because that would be to assert that what is real is that reality is a myth, which cannot be asserted as there is no reality (because it is a myth). I want to show that such denials of ...
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... Western Philosophy: ideas and Argument from Plato to Sartre, London: Thames and Hudson, 1978. 12 Roland Barthes, Mythologies, London: Paladin, 1973, p. 11. 13 Ibid., p. 130. EUPHORIA 'I think this is one of the most important.
... Western Philosophy: ideas and Argument from Plato to Sartre, London: Thames and Hudson, 1978. 12 Roland Barthes, Mythologies, London: Paladin, 1973, p. 11. 13 Ibid., p. 130. EUPHORIA 'I think this is one of the most important.
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... argued that each new technology is initially understood in terms of its predecessors: the car was the horseless carriage, television was radio with pictures, and so virtual reality is currently seen as physical reality with a few extra ...
... argued that each new technology is initially understood in terms of its predecessors: the car was the horseless carriage, television was radio with pictures, and so virtual reality is currently seen as physical reality with a few extra ...
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... argued Stallman, so can a typewriter's 'user interface', forcing each typewriter manufacturer to come out with a different arrangement of the keys, and so can a car's, forcing each car company to use different alternatives to the ...
... argued Stallman, so can a typewriter's 'user interface', forcing each typewriter manufacturer to come out with a different arrangement of the keys, and so can a car's, forcing each car company to use different alternatives to the ...
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... argued, becoming alarmingly relevant to its subsequent behaviour. Had there, then, been a computer counter-revolution that had simply left a new set of plutocratic pigs in control? Certainly, notwithstanding its counter-cultural origins ...
... argued, becoming alarmingly relevant to its subsequent behaviour. Had there, then, been a computer counter-revolution that had simply left a new set of plutocratic pigs in control? Certainly, notwithstanding its counter-cultural origins ...
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