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Woolley, Benjamin

 
9780631182146: Virtual Worlds: A Journey in Hype and Hyperreality
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0631182144 ISBN 13: 9780631182146
Verlag: Blackwell Publishers, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

Computers have changed our lives; with virtual reality, they will change our very experience, recreating it in an image of our choosing. That, at least, is what the champions of virtual reality claim. It will not simply reshape our view of technology, they say, but our view of ourselves and the world we live in. It is about the increasing power of information technology to create simulated environments, new universes that are neither actual nor fictional, but somewhere in between: virtual.
In Virtual Worlds, Benjamin Woolley examines the reality of virtual reality. He looks at the dramatic intellectual and cultural upheavals that gave birth to it, at the hype that surrounds it, at the people who have promoted it, and at 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.

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Verlag
Blackwell Publishers
Erscheinungsdatum
1992
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0631182144
ISBN 13 
9780631182146
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
232
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