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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Page 107
... words were not the product of any mechanical procedure but of the imagination of the poet Laurence Lerner , seeking to show the vanity of any human attempt to make a machine think . What ARTHUR lacked , of course , was not the ability ...
... words were not the product of any mechanical procedure but of the imagination of the poet Laurence Lerner , seeking to show the vanity of any human attempt to make a machine think . What ARTHUR lacked , of course , was not the ability ...
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... words , emerged with very little variation to protect it from opportunistic infection . Worse , this technological monoculture was both dispersed , used across the Western world by the self- employed and the multinational alike , and ...
... words , emerged with very little variation to protect it from opportunistic infection . Worse , this technological monoculture was both dispersed , used across the Western world by the self- employed and the multinational alike , and ...
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... words , words ... " , and they both shake and spear us because they are the words of the fictional character reflecting on the very substance of his being . " Fuentes wrote this in an introduction to Cervantes's Don Quixote , a work ...
... words , words ... " , and they both shake and spear us because they are the words of the fictional character reflecting on the very substance of his being . " Fuentes wrote this in an introduction to Cervantes's Don Quixote , a work ...
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