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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... complex, artificial environment can diminish our sense of reality. And, as that sense diminishes, so innumerable troubling side-effects start to creep in. Soon after Olestra's announcement, an American pressure group, the Center for ...
... complex, artificial environment can diminish our sense of reality. And, as that sense diminishes, so innumerable troubling side-effects start to creep in. Soon after Olestra's announcement, an American pressure group, the Center for ...
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... complex that every free-thinking Californian radical knew to have fuelled the Vietnam War; it promoted ignorance by making its computers complicated and by intentionally failing to document adequately how they worked; its technology was ...
... complex that every free-thinking Californian radical knew to have fuelled the Vietnam War; it promoted ignorance by making its computers complicated and by intentionally failing to document adequately how they worked; its technology was ...
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... complex . For example , if , as is the case with some accounts , the interest rate itself rises as the balance rises , the interest accrued can push up the balance sufficiently to increase the interest rate , producing a sort of ...
... complex . For example , if , as is the case with some accounts , the interest rate itself rises as the balance rises , the interest accrued can push up the balance sufficiently to increase the interest rate , producing a sort of ...
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... differential analyser at least showed that it was possible to use a machine to solve complex differential equations; the problem was finding a technology that could solve them in real time, at a rate that reflects the.
... differential analyser at least showed that it was possible to use a machine to solve complex differential equations; the problem was finding a technology that could solve them in real time, at a rate that reflects the.
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... complex to describe, because it does not have the pure regularity of geometric shapes. Also, there is more to the appearance of an object than its shape: there is the texture of its surface, and the position and nature of the light ...
... complex to describe, because it does not have the pure regularity of geometric shapes. Also, there is more to the appearance of an object than its shape: there is the texture of its surface, and the position and nature of the light ...
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