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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... sort of Me TV channel , one that reflects my individual interests . But the experience of home cine - surely itself a paradigm of liberating personal media - shows that it will take more than technology to challenge the position of ...
... sort of Me TV channel , one that reflects my individual interests . But the experience of home cine - surely itself a paradigm of liberating personal media - shows that it will take more than technology to challenge the position of ...
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... sort of space , some sort of independent realm created by the interconnection of the world's information systems ? Is this a metaphorical space or a real one ? Conventionally , we think of networks as transparent , as systems for ...
... sort of space , some sort of independent realm created by the interconnection of the world's information systems ? Is this a metaphorical space or a real one ? Conventionally , we think of networks as transparent , as systems for ...
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... sort encountered above the subatomic scale - and it took a completely different sort of mathematics to describe it . In order to sort out the accumulating anomalies and peculiarities that came cascading out of the study of this newly ...
... sort encountered above the subatomic scale - and it took a completely different sort of mathematics to describe it . In order to sort out the accumulating anomalies and peculiarities that came cascading out of the study of this newly ...
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