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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... mathematical and scientific questions, and in attempting to answer them I hope to show what is 'special' about the computer, why it is not just a glorified calculator, and why those who have developed it have attributed to it is such ...
... mathematical and scientific questions, and in attempting to answer them I hope to show what is 'special' about the computer, why it is not just a glorified calculator, and why those who have developed it have attributed to it is such ...
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... the laws that govern the mental or imaginary realm. Virtual reality, then, is about discovering this world as it is determined by these laws — and is based on the assumption that such laws are in some sense mathematical or,
... the laws that govern the mental or imaginary realm. Virtual reality, then, is about discovering this world as it is determined by these laws — and is based on the assumption that such laws are in some sense mathematical or,
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... mathematical or, more precisely, 'computable' a term we shall return to later. Bricken, however, spoke for the entire assembly of virtual reality enthusiasts gathered at that meeting when he expressed this 'physics' in terms that go way ...
... mathematical or, more precisely, 'computable' a term we shall return to later. Bricken, however, spoke for the entire assembly of virtual reality enthusiasts gathered at that meeting when he expressed this 'physics' in terms that go way ...
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... mathematics. Hackers are, in other words, inhabitants of the abstract domain, and it is that domain to which they truly belong, not the ugly, mundane one of physical hardware. No one better symbolizes the hacker's alien status than one ...
... mathematics. Hackers are, in other words, inhabitants of the abstract domain, and it is that domain to which they truly belong, not the ugly, mundane one of physical hardware. No one better symbolizes the hacker's alien status than one ...
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... mathematical procedure that can be completed by some automatic, mechanistic means, without the need for any human imagination or creativity. Not all mathematics, as mathematicians sensitive to the charge of being unimaginative point out ...
... mathematical procedure that can be completed by some automatic, mechanistic means, without the need for any human imagination or creativity. Not all mathematics, as mathematicians sensitive to the charge of being unimaginative point out ...
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