by Howard Rheingold · Summit Books · tapa dura · ISBN 9780671693633
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«Virtual Reality» is Howard Rheingold's technology essay, published by Summit Books in hardcover (415 pages, in English).
The book examines technology that creates artificial worlds by computer and produces the illusion of being immersed in them. Rheingold surveys pioneering projects and sets out their social, economic, psychological and philosophical implications, as well as their potential to transform business and society.
First edition of 1991, published in New York. The book includes bibliographic references (pages 392-399) and an index.
Work of interest to technology and computing readers and to university students wanting to learn about the origins of virtual reality.
Howard Rheingold is an American critic, writer, and teacher, known for his specialties on the cultural, social and political implications of modern communication media such as the Internet, mobile telephony and virtual communities.
