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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... Turing's faith in the necessity to discover ' hidden contradictions ' . Hilbert had said : ' No one is going to turn ... Turing's ideas were revealing themselves to have very practical significance . The idea of the Turing machine's ...
... Turing's faith in the necessity to discover ' hidden contradictions ' . Hilbert had said : ' No one is going to turn ... Turing's ideas were revealing themselves to have very practical significance . The idea of the Turing machine's ...
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... Turing's insight , it meant a machine : he had proved , in other words , that it was possible to mechanize what had previously only been possible by means of mental effort . The machine had crossed a critical barrier . Before , machines ...
... Turing's insight , it meant a machine : he had proved , in other words , that it was possible to mechanize what had previously only been possible by means of mental effort . The machine had crossed a critical barrier . Before , machines ...
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... Turing model of " the brain " , wrote Turing's biographer Andrew Hodges , ' it was crucial to see that it regarded physics and chemistry . . . as essentially irrelevant . In his view , the physics and chemistry were only relevant in as ...
... Turing model of " the brain " , wrote Turing's biographer Andrew Hodges , ' it was crucial to see that it regarded physics and chemistry . . . as essentially irrelevant . In his view , the physics and chemistry were only relevant in as ...
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