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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... concept pregnant with its own contrary. When Marx used the phrase in 1856, he was commenting on an era that was having to come to terms with the violent impact of industrialization on the order of nature. This book is about the impact ...
... concept pregnant with its own contrary. When Marx used the phrase in 1856, he was commenting on an era that was having to come to terms with the violent impact of industrialization on the order of nature. This book is about the impact ...
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... concept was simple, to have a movie that shows a drive through the town of Aspen, Colorado, with the difference that the viewer, by pointing at the screen, could alter the course of the drive. This was done by filming a number of ...
... concept was simple, to have a movie that shows a drive through the town of Aspen, Colorado, with the difference that the viewer, by pointing at the screen, could alter the course of the drive. This was done by filming a number of ...
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... concept of Dymaxion, a contraction of the words 'dynamic', 'maximum' and 'ion' that to him summarized the need to develop resource-efficient, self-sustaining technologies. He developed the Dymaxion ideal by inventing a host of devices ...
... concept of Dymaxion, a contraction of the words 'dynamic', 'maximum' and 'ion' that to him summarized the need to develop resource-efficient, self-sustaining technologies. He developed the Dymaxion ideal by inventing a host of devices ...
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... concept that ' Prime time becomes my time ' , as Nicholas Negroponte , the director of MIT's Media Lab , put it . Certainly , cable TV as well as home video could , in combination with computers capable of manipulating video images , be ...
... concept that ' Prime time becomes my time ' , as Nicholas Negroponte , the director of MIT's Media Lab , put it . Certainly , cable TV as well as home video could , in combination with computers capable of manipulating video images , be ...
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... concept of cyberspace. Leary, in one of his rocket- boosted flights into hyperbole, described Gibson as 'Most valuable performing philosopher', the writer of 'the underlying myth, the core legend, of the next stage of human evolution ...
... concept of cyberspace. Leary, in one of his rocket- boosted flights into hyperbole, described Gibson as 'Most valuable performing philosopher', the writer of 'the underlying myth, the core legend, of the next stage of human evolution ...
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