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Surviving the age of virtual reality
- Title
- Surviving the age of virtual reality / Thomas Langan.
- Author
- Langan, Thomas.
- Publication
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2000], ©2000.
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- Description
- 184 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In this book, philosopher Thomas Langan explores "virtual reality" - an inherently contradictory phrase - and the effects of technology on our very being.
- In our present-day high-technology environment, making simple, everyday decisions is difficult because the virtual world we've created doesn't necessarily operate according to the old "common sense." To retain our intellectual fitness, we must, Langan argues, consider these essential questions: If virtual reality is, in fact, reality, what is this life that we are caught up in? What is being within the context of virtual reality?
- How can we establish a system for distinguishing truth from fiction?"--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Pt. 1. Where Are We? Ch. 1. Introduction: Welcome to the HTX! Ch. 2. The Seeds of the HTX. Ch. 3. The Essence and Anatomy of the HTX. Ch. 4. The Heart of HTX Capitalism: Caput, Capital Flow, and Information -- Pt. 2. How to Survive. Ch. 5. Don't Lose Contact with Reality ... but First, What Is Real? Into the Dreams and Reality of Social Engineering. Ch. 6. Gigantomachia: The Clash of Anthropologies.
- ISBN
- 0826212522 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 99054265
- OCLC
- ocm42708149
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries