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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... modern met its last post . The architectural critic Charles Jencks has come up with a satisfyingly specific candidate for such a moment , at least with respect to architecture : ' Happily , we can date the death of Modern Architecture ...
... modern met its last post . The architectural critic Charles Jencks has come up with a satisfyingly specific candidate for such a moment , at least with respect to architecture : ' Happily , we can date the death of Modern Architecture ...
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... modern era . The modern era , from the deep perspective of the historian of human thought , began after the Renaissance , or possibly with the Enlightenment , or at any rate whenever ideas such as technological progress and the ...
... modern era . The modern era , from the deep perspective of the historian of human thought , began after the Renaissance , or possibly with the Enlightenment , or at any rate whenever ideas such as technological progress and the ...
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... modern scene ' , that of modern man confronting the ' maelstrom ' of the modern city street , forced to live at the pace of the traffic around him . Sixty years later , the great twentieth century architect Le Corbusier , was walking ...
... modern scene ' , that of modern man confronting the ' maelstrom ' of the modern city street , forced to live at the pace of the traffic around him . Sixty years later , the great twentieth century architect Le Corbusier , was walking ...
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