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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... observation ' , wrote Heisenberg . ' If we want to describe what happens in [ a subatomic ] event , we have to realize that the word " happens " can apply only to the observation , not to the state of affairs between two observations ...
... observation ' , wrote Heisenberg . ' If we want to describe what happens in [ a subatomic ] event , we have to realize that the word " happens " can apply only to the observation , not to the state of affairs between two observations ...
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... observation settled the cat's fate . Would a passing dog that managed to open the chamber's door collapse the wave ... observation ? Is our role that of metaphysical voyeur , condensing the world into actuality through the mere act of ...
... observation settled the cat's fate . Would a passing dog that managed to open the chamber's door collapse the wave ... observation ? Is our role that of metaphysical voyeur , condensing the world into actuality through the mere act of ...
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... observe ' the outcome of an experiment . According to Deutsch , what should then happen is that the memory effectively splits into two copies of itself - because , according to the Everett interpretation , the act of observation should ...
... observe ' the outcome of an experiment . According to Deutsch , what should then happen is that the memory effectively splits into two copies of itself - because , according to the Everett interpretation , the act of observation should ...
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