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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... Mandelbrot , nephew of the Bourbakist Szolem Mandelbrojt , sees himself , and is seen by many , as the champion of the more intuitive , less reductive set of scientific attitudes that are associated with chaos . Unlike his colleagues in ...
... Mandelbrot , nephew of the Bourbakist Szolem Mandelbrojt , sees himself , and is seen by many , as the champion of the more intuitive , less reductive set of scientific attitudes that are associated with chaos . Unlike his colleagues in ...
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... Mandelbrot had found elsewhere . It seemed to hold some sort of universal meaning , plotting the boundary conditions that govern the behaviour of any number of potentially ' turbulent ' or chaotic phenomena : stock exchange indices ...
... Mandelbrot had found elsewhere . It seemed to hold some sort of universal meaning , plotting the boundary conditions that govern the behaviour of any number of potentially ' turbulent ' or chaotic phenomena : stock exchange indices ...
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... Mandelbrot set . The procedure used to generate the set is simple . You take a number , square it , square the result and add the number you started with , square that result and add the number you started with and so on . Performing ...
... Mandelbrot set . The procedure used to generate the set is simple . You take a number , square it , square the result and add the number you started with , square that result and add the number you started with and so on . Performing ...
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