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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... subatomic particles that appear so fleetingly they cannot be detected. It has come a long way from its original use as the adjectival form of 'virtue', in the days when virtue itself meant to have the power of God. Echoes of that early ...
... subatomic particles that appear so fleetingly they cannot be detected. It has come a long way from its original use as the adjectival form of 'virtue', in the days when virtue itself meant to have the power of God. Echoes of that early ...
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... subatomic particles such as electrons . Such particles behave very strangely , at least as mapped in physical space . But , the Hungarian - American mathematician John von Neumann , the man credited with developing the basic design ...
... subatomic particles such as electrons . Such particles behave very strangely , at least as mapped in physical space . But , the Hungarian - American mathematician John von Neumann , the man credited with developing the basic design ...
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... subatomic particle's state came to be described not by the usual formulae representing its position and speed but by a 'wave function', a formula that computed the probability of the particle being at any particular point at any ...
... subatomic particle's state came to be described not by the usual formulae representing its position and speed but by a 'wave function', a formula that computed the probability of the particle being at any particular point at any ...
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... subatomic particle's position and its momentum — to be more certain about one is to be less certain about the other, and to be certain about both is impossible. The important, and mysterious, point about the uncertainty principle is ...
... subatomic particle's position and its momentum — to be more certain about one is to be less certain about the other, and to be certain about both is impossible. The important, and mysterious, point about the uncertainty principle is ...
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... subatomic particles that bounce off each other. According to the law of conservation of momentum (a classical law of physics that had survived even quantum mechanics), the momentum of one particle could be worked out by measuring the ...
... subatomic particles that bounce off each other. According to the law of conservation of momentum (a classical law of physics that had survived even quantum mechanics), the momentum of one particle could be worked out by measuring the ...
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