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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... mathematician whose second book gave us the word algebra (from the Arabic Al-jabr). It is now used to describe any ... mathematicians sensitive to the charge of being unimaginative point out, is algorithmic. Another example of an ...
... mathematician whose second book gave us the word algebra (from the Arabic Al-jabr). It is now used to describe any ... mathematicians sensitive to the charge of being unimaginative point out, is algorithmic. Another example of an ...
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... mathematician Alan Turing in a paper entitled 'On computable numbers'.3 The temptation is to say that Turing's paper was a turning point in the intellectual history of our times, but it was published in a period when every point was ...
... mathematician Alan Turing in a paper entitled 'On computable numbers'.3 The temptation is to say that Turing's paper was a turning point in the intellectual history of our times, but it was published in a period when every point was ...
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... Mathematicians in Paris . Equal to the moment and location , Hilbert challenged his peers to solve the outstanding problems in mathematics indeed , being the mathematician he was , he even enumerated them , counting 23 in all . The ...
... Mathematicians in Paris . Equal to the moment and location , Hilbert challenged his peers to solve the outstanding problems in mathematics indeed , being the mathematician he was , he even enumerated them , counting 23 in all . The ...
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... mathematician who probably represents the polar opposite of Bourbakist purity. Mourning the loss of a generation of mathematicians killed by the war, impatient with the older professors who were left to instruct them, the Bourbakists ...
... mathematician who probably represents the polar opposite of Bourbakist purity. Mourning the loss of a generation of mathematicians killed by the war, impatient with the older professors who were left to instruct them, the Bourbakists ...
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... Mathematicians of the need for some eternal, undeniable validation. As well as being consistent, maths, he demanded ... mathematician Kurt Gödel published a paper entitled 'On formally undecidable propositions of Principia Mathematica ...
... Mathematicians of the need for some eternal, undeniable validation. As well as being consistent, maths, he demanded ... mathematician Kurt Gödel published a paper entitled 'On formally undecidable propositions of Principia Mathematica ...
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