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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... things that we produce , who experience and learn by them ' . This cosy little constituency of ' you ' and the ' people ' , all of whom were in need of whatever ' we ' were so inevitably going to deliver , seemed somewhat to undermine ...
... things that we produce , who experience and learn by them ' . This cosy little constituency of ' you ' and the ' people ' , all of whom were in need of whatever ' we ' were so inevitably going to deliver , seemed somewhat to undermine ...
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... things are worn down , losing shape and form , living things somehow create it . In a paper published in 1952 , ' The chemical basis of morpho- genesis ' , 12 Alan Turing addressed the issue of ' morphogenesis ' , the genesis of form ...
... things are worn down , losing shape and form , living things somehow create it . In a paper published in 1952 , ' The chemical basis of morpho- genesis ' , 12 Alan Turing addressed the issue of ' morphogenesis ' , the genesis of form ...
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... thing , but it was the same thing being seen - images , representations , pictures , never the ' thing itself ' . Baudrillard's argument , echoed throughout the radical French press , was that there was no ' thing itself ' , no ' real ...
... thing , but it was the same thing being seen - images , representations , pictures , never the ' thing itself ' . Baudrillard's argument , echoed throughout the radical French press , was that there was no ' thing itself ' , no ' real ...
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