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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... collections.22 In 1984 , he published another paper in the New Left Review entitled ' Postmodernism : the cultural logic ... collection.24 Finally , in 1988 , this last version of the paper , still carrying traces of the Whitney Museum ...
... collections.22 In 1984 , he published another paper in the New Left Review entitled ' Postmodernism : the cultural logic ... collection.24 Finally , in 1988 , this last version of the paper , still carrying traces of the Whitney Museum ...
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... collection of essays Travels in Hyperreality , ' tells us that technology can give us more reality than nature can . " 23 He travelled the wild river in Adventureland , watching the alligators bask on the banks . Then he travelled on ...
... collection of essays Travels in Hyperreality , ' tells us that technology can give us more reality than nature can . " 23 He travelled the wild river in Adventureland , watching the alligators bask on the banks . Then he travelled on ...
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... collection of wood and corrugated iron huts , ramshackle as rooks ' nests , leaning against a perimeter wall . I peered through one of the doors into the gloom . It was like looking through a window onto another age . A group of faces ...
... collection of wood and corrugated iron huts , ramshackle as rooks ' nests , leaning against a perimeter wall . I peered through one of the doors into the gloom . It was like looking through a window onto another age . A group of faces ...
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