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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... paradigm , symptomatic of a physiological state so much as a spiritual one . What disturbed the scientific world's self - assurance about Kuhn's idea was his assertion that no paradigm can claim universal validity - the Newtonian paradigm ...
... paradigm , symptomatic of a physiological state so much as a spiritual one . What disturbed the scientific world's self - assurance about Kuhn's idea was his assertion that no paradigm can claim universal validity - the Newtonian paradigm ...
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... paradigm shift ' , the moment described by Thomas Kuhn when the old ideas and practices , enfeebled by anomalies , are forced to make way for new ones . For the time being , large - scale mechanics and quantum mech- anics have been ...
... paradigm shift ' , the moment described by Thomas Kuhn when the old ideas and practices , enfeebled by anomalies , are forced to make way for new ones . For the time being , large - scale mechanics and quantum mech- anics have been ...
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... paradigm , 184 paradigm shift , 224 PARC , see Xerox Paris , 171-2 as theme park , 201 Pasteur , Louis , 84 pattern - recognition , 108 Pavel , Thomas , 228-9 Peano , Guiseppe , 62 Peierls , Sir Rudolf , 226 Pennsylvania , University of ...
... paradigm , 184 paradigm shift , 224 PARC , see Xerox Paris , 171-2 as theme park , 201 Pasteur , Louis , 84 pattern - recognition , 108 Pavel , Thomas , 228-9 Peano , Guiseppe , 62 Peierls , Sir Rudolf , 226 Pennsylvania , University of ...
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