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The Virtual Future
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Author : William Sims Bainbridge
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2011-09-06
The Virtual Future written by William Sims Bainbridge and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-06 with Computers categories.
The newest communication technologies are profoundly changing the world's politics, economies, and cultures, but the specific implications of online game worlds remain mysterious. The Virtual Future employs theories and methods from social science to explore nine very different virtual futures: The Matrix Online, Tabula Rasa, Anarchy Online, Entropia Universe, Star Trek Online, EVE Online, Star Wars Galaxies, World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade, and The Chronicles of Riddick. Each presents a different picture of how technology and society could evolve in coming centuries, but one theme runs through all of them, the attempt to escape the Earth and seek new destinies among the stars. Four decades after the last trip to the moon, a new conception of spaceflight is emerging. Rather than rockets shooting humans across vast physical distances to sterile rocks that lack the resources to sustain life, perhaps robot space probes and orbiting telescopes will glean information about the universe, that humans can then experience inside computer-generated environments much closer to home. All nine of these fantastically rich multiplayer masterpieces have shown myriads of people that really radical alternatives to contemporary society could exist, and has served as a laboratory for examining the consequences. Each is a prototype of new social forms, a utopian subculture, and a simulation of technologies that have yet to be invented. They draw upon several different traditions of science fiction and academic philosophy, and they were created in several nations. By comparing these nine role-playing fantasies, we can better consider what kind of world we want to inhabit in the real future.
Virtual Futures
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Author : Joan Broadhurst Dixon
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-07-20
Virtual Futures written by Joan Broadhurst Dixon and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-20 with Philosophy categories.
Virtual Futures explores the ideas that the future lies in its ability to articulate the consequences of an increasingly synthetic and virtual world. New technologies like cyberspace, the internet, and Chaos theory are often discussed in the context of technology and its potential to liberate or in terms of technophobia. This collection examines both these ideas while also charting a new and controversial route through contemporary discourses on technology; a path that discusses the material evolution and the erotic relation between humans and machines. Virtual Futures brings together diverse fields such as cyberfeminism, materialist philosophy, postmodern fiction, computing culture and performance art, with essays by Sadie Plant, Stelarc and Manuel de Landa (to name a few). The collection heralds the death of humanism and the ride of posthuman pragmatism. The contested zone of debate throughout these essays is the notion of the posthuman, or the possibility of the cyborg as the free human. Viewed by some writers as a threat to human life and humanism itself, others in the collection describe the posthuman as a critical perspective that anticipates the next step in evolution: the integration or synthesis of humans and machines, organic life and technology. This view of technology and information is heavily influenced by Anglo American literature, especially cyberpunk, Pynchon and Ballard, as well as the materialist philosophies of Freud, Deleuze, and Haraway, Virtual Futures provides analyses by both established theorists and the most innovative new voices working in conjunction between the arts and contemporary technology.
Virtual Futures
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Author : DAN. WARD O'HARA (TOM. ORAM, STEPHEN.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-03-05
Virtual Futures written by DAN. WARD O'HARA (TOM. ORAM, STEPHEN.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-05 with categories.
When tomorrow has become a question mark, can science fiction be a means of exploring the answer? Eighteen bursts of speculative fiction that explore the landscape of the near future: short stories that depict a world populated by killer voice-controlled speakers, AIs with mental health disorders, narcotic nanobots, and more.
Vital Signals
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Vital Signals written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.
Virtual Futures For Design Construction And Procurement
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Author : Peter S. Brandon
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2009-01-22
Virtual Futures For Design Construction And Procurement written by Peter S. Brandon and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-22 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This book brings together some of the best practitioners andthinkers from around the world to discuss the likely future ofinformation and communication technologies for the constructionindustry. It addresses a range of innovative developments, state of the artapplications, research work and theoretical arguments with regardto the use of virtual technologies in design, construction andprocurement. From a future oriented perspective, the book presentswhat can be expected from the next generation of thesetechnologies.
Being Really Virtual
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Author : Frank Steinicke
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-10-22
Being Really Virtual written by Frank Steinicke and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-22 with Computers categories.
This book focuses on the recent developments of virtual reality (VR) and immersive technologies, what effect they are having on our modern, digitised society and explores how current developments and advancements in this field are leading to a virtual revolution. Using Ivan Sutherland's ‘The Ultimate Display’ and Moore’s law as a springboard, the author discusses both popular scientific and technological accounts of the past, present and possible futures of VR, looking at current research trends, developments, challenges and ethical considerations to the coming age of differing realities. Being Really Virtual is for researchers, designers and developers of VR and immersive technologies and anyone with an interest in the exponential rise of such technologies and how they are changing the very way we perceive, interact and communicate within our digital society.
Four Futures
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Author : Peter Frase
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2016-11-01
Four Futures written by Peter Frase and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-01 with Political Science categories.
An exploration of the utopias and dystopias that could develop from present society Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of resources, thanks to climate change, will bring it all tumbling down. In Four Futures, Frase imagines how this post-capitalist world might look, deploying the tools of both social science and speculative fiction to explore what communism, rentism and extermininsm might actually entail. Could the current rise of the real-life robocops usher in a world that resembles Ender's Game? And sure, communism will bring an end to material scarcities and inequalities of wealth—but there's no guarantee that social hierarchies, governed by an economy of "likes," wouldn't rise to take their place. A whirlwind tour through science fiction, social theory and the new technologies are already shaping our lives, Four Futures is a balance sheet of the socialisms we may reach if a resurgent Left is successful, and the barbarisms we may be consigned to if those movements fail.
Philosophy For An Ending World
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Author : Tim Mulgan
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024-07
Philosophy For An Ending World written by Tim Mulgan and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07 with Philosophy categories.
Tim Mulgan introduces a new thought experiment, which takes the form of a challenging possible future: the world will end in two hundred years, and humanity faces unavoidable but not immediate extinction. He presents imaginary discussions, within this slowly ending world, of such topics as the meaning of life and the purpose of the universe.
The Future Of Entertainment
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Author : M. M. Eboch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
The Future Of Entertainment written by M. M. Eboch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
From stage productions to television to movies, humans have always been entertained by a good story. But how might entertainment change in the future? From immersive virtual reality games to social media with 3-D holograms, readers can find out what cool new technologies might change the way they are entertained.
Future Presence
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Author : Peter Rubin
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2018-04-17
Future Presence written by Peter Rubin and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-17 with Technology & Engineering categories.
A Wired senior editor and virtual reality expert presents a captivating, candid glimpse into the future "realities" of this emerging technology: how we will use it to form previously impossible relationships, explore new frontiers of intimacy, and how it will forever change human connection. Heralded as the most significant technological innovation since the smartphone, virtual reality is poised to transform our very notions of life and humanity. Though this tech is still in its infancy, to those on the inside, it is the future. VR will change how we work, how we experience entertainment, how we feel pleasure and other emotions, how we see ourselves, and most importantly, how we relate to each other in the real world. And we will never be the same. Peter Rubin, senior culture editor for Wired and the industry’s go-to authority on the subject, calls it an "intimacy engine." While once we needed another person to feel the sensations of closeness, trust, vulnerability, confidence, and titillation, VR will give us the ability to induce these sensations by ourselves for the first time in human history. This metamorphosis, Rubin argues, is going to have a powerful impact on relationships that will ripple throughout our society and our individual lives. A journey into this uncertain future and a glimpse at the cultural implications and promises of a new reality, Future Presence explores a host of complex questions about what makes us human, what connects us, and what is real. Offering a glimpse into the mind-blowing things happening in universities, labs, and tech companies around the world, Rubin leads readers on an entertaining tour of the weirdest, wildest corners of this fascinating new universe. Describing this book as "half travelogue and half crystal ball", Rubin will: Introduce readers to the creators and consumers of VR technology Show readers what an experience is like inside the current VR devices Explain how this technology will upend everything we know about human connection in the future At once the incredible, inevitable story of virtual reality’s rise and a look towards the future of our fantasies, Future Presence is a deeply personal examination of what connects us, and an analysis of what relationships, empathy, and sex could look like—sooner than we think.