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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... memory . ' Memory ' is the rather grand , perhaps misleadingly anthropomorphic , term for the technology used to store information for computer processing . There are two sorts of memory , sometimes simply known as fast and slow . Fast ...
... memory . ' Memory ' is the rather grand , perhaps misleadingly anthropomorphic , term for the technology used to store information for computer processing . There are two sorts of memory , sometimes simply known as fast and slow . Fast ...
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... memory is not real memory is a mere technicality ; from the point of view of the computer and its user , virtual memory is just as real as actual memory . It is a simulation of a physical system that is perfect in every detail , except ...
... memory is not real memory is a mere technicality ; from the point of view of the computer and its user , virtual memory is just as real as actual memory . It is a simulation of a physical system that is perfect in every detail , except ...
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... memory feat was the one he used to tell his stories , whereby he would think of a sequence of ideas as a space , and populate the space with objects that would jog his memory . By mentally walking through this imaginary space , he was ...
... memory feat was the one he used to tell his stories , whereby he would think of a sequence of ideas as a space , and populate the space with objects that would jog his memory . By mentally walking through this imaginary space , he was ...
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