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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... symbol of the triumph of the land of dreams over the empire of iron, the 'end of history', that Lenin should be left to decay while the cryogenically preserved Walt Disney waits in suspended animation (an appropriate state for a ...
... symbol of the triumph of the land of dreams over the empire of iron, the 'end of history', that Lenin should be left to decay while the cryogenically preserved Walt Disney waits in suspended animation (an appropriate state for a ...
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... symbol of futurism. He also produced what he called the World Game. Based on his Dymaxion Air- Ocean World Map, which was the size of a basketball court, it entailed trying to distribute world resources in a way that ensured that ...
... symbol of futurism. He also produced what he called the World Game. Based on his Dymaxion Air- Ocean World Map, which was the size of a basketball court, it entailed trying to distribute world resources in a way that ensured that ...
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... symbols that have nothing in particular to do with balls or the way they happen to bounce. The result was claimed to be the first example of 'man machine interactive control of the display', as well as the first computer game.10 An ...
... symbols that have nothing in particular to do with balls or the way they happen to bounce. The result was claimed to be the first example of 'man machine interactive control of the display', as well as the first computer game.10 An ...
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... symbol of American corporatism, the foundation of centralized, mechanized, depersonalized multinational companies and state utilities, the purveyors of payrolls and bills. The '360' designation was, according to evidence submitted to ...
... symbol of American corporatism, the foundation of centralized, mechanized, depersonalized multinational companies and state utilities, the purveyors of payrolls and bills. The '360' designation was, according to evidence submitted to ...
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... symbols, one that operated quite separately from the real world. As Andrew Hodges, a mathematician and biographer of Alan Turing, put it: 'A rule such as "x + y = y + x" could be regarded as a rule for a game, as in chess, stating how ...
... symbols, one that operated quite separately from the real world. As Andrew Hodges, a mathematician and biographer of Alan Turing, put it: 'A rule such as "x + y = y + x" could be regarded as a rule for a game, as in chess, stating how ...
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