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ISBN 0-14-015439-6 (UK pbk)
non-fiction, science, virtual reality, cyberspace, cybernetics, cyberpunk, Jean-Francois Lyotard
Shortlisted for the 1993 Science Book Prize.
"Virtual reality is one of the most exciting areas of current technology. Its leading proponents are pioneering visionaries, increasingly allied to (or harnessed by) powerful commercial interests. What are they trying to do with our experience of reality? Do they offer a new 'hyperreality', or just hype? Benjamin Woolley explains the technology, explores the implications of likely future developments, and asks: are the virtual realists actually creating reality, or simply losing their grasp of it?" [jacket blurb, UK pbk, 1993]
"Excellent... How real is reality?... This tour through the simulated, the hyper and the artificial is fascinating and thought-provoking and raises important questions about a great deal of the nonsense being talked by certain philosophers and computer enthusiasts." --Danah Zohar (in the Independent on Sunday ).
Also see Benjamin Woolley on BBC2's program The Net (mondays at 20:30 UK time). And visit The Net's website (if it ever returns) at:
http://www.bbcnc.org.uk/bbctv/the-net/
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