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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... mathematician ranked by some alongside Archimedes and Newton , 5 published his Disquisitions , which demonstrated a method for constructing shapes that could not be described using Euclid's geometry , the first sign that classical and ...
... mathematician ranked by some alongside Archimedes and Newton , 5 published his Disquisitions , which demonstrated a method for constructing shapes that could not be described using Euclid's geometry , the first sign that classical and ...
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... Mathematicians in Paris . Equal to the moment and location , Hilbert challenged his peers to solve the outstanding problems in mathematics - indeed , being the mathematician he was , he even enumerated them , counting 23 in all . The ...
... Mathematicians in Paris . Equal to the moment and location , Hilbert challenged his peers to solve the outstanding problems in mathematics - indeed , being the mathematician he was , he even enumerated them , counting 23 in all . The ...
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... mathematician who probably represents the polar opposite of Bourbakist purity . Mourning the loss of a generation of mathematicians killed by the war , impatient with the older professors who were left to instruct them , the Bourbakists ...
... mathematician who probably represents the polar opposite of Bourbakist purity . Mourning the loss of a generation of mathematicians killed by the war , impatient with the older professors who were left to instruct them , the Bourbakists ...
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