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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... phenomena . It could allocate a processor to each element of the phenomenon to be modelled - say , one processor per particle in a swirl of smoke and use the network to reproduce their interactions . The Connection Machine looked like a ...
... phenomena . It could allocate a processor to each element of the phenomenon to be modelled - say , one processor per particle in a swirl of smoke and use the network to reproduce their interactions . The Connection Machine looked like a ...
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... phenomena - from hurricanes to evolution - can be computed . As the excitement surrounding chaos theory hinted , even social and cultural phenomena , may , at least on the level of statistical generalizations , reveal computable ...
... phenomena - from hurricanes to evolution - can be computed . As the excitement surrounding chaos theory hinted , even social and cultural phenomena , may , at least on the level of statistical generalizations , reveal computable ...
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... phenomena that dominate our lives are resolved into matters of subjective opinion , quite beyond the scope of science to account for . Of course , social sciences such as the sort of sociology and anthropology that tends to be taught in ...
... phenomena that dominate our lives are resolved into matters of subjective opinion , quite beyond the scope of science to account for . Of course , social sciences such as the sort of sociology and anthropology that tends to be taught in ...
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