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The visionary position : the inside story of the digital dreamers who are making virtual reality a reality
- Title
- The visionary position : the inside story of the digital dreamers who are making virtual reality a reality / Fred Moody.
- Author
- Moody, Fred.
- Publication
- New York : Times Business, [1999], ©1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | QA76.9.H85 M67 1999 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxvi, 353 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- A writer's worm's-eye view of an industry coming into being provides the reader a unique perspective on just why America is the world's capital of progress and innovation. Fred Moody spent a year tracking developments at the center for virtual-reality research, a cluster of Seattle companies formed around the University of Washington's Human Interface Technology Laboratory, and in The Visionary Position he chronicles the birth of an industry.
- Subjects
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Incubation. Promises, Promises. The Road to Damascus. VR Winter. In the Sweat of Thy Face Shalt Thou Eat Bread. The Soul of a New Machinist -- Parturition. Buddy, Can You Paradigm? The Elisha Gray Memorial Chapter. Paradigm Downshift. A Hole in the Ground Surrounded by Liars. The Visionary Position. And the Earth Shall Cast Out the Dead. Behold, I Am in My Anger. The Sense of an Ending -- Postpartum. Shoot the Inventor.
- ISBN
- 0812928520
- LCCN
- 98022335
- OCLC
- ocm39123192
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries