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The War Of The Worlds: Cyberspace and the High-tech Assault on Reality: The Assault on Reality - Hardcover
Synopsis
Mark Z. Slouka argues that the perception of reality in America has been radically altered by the emergence of new technologies. The notion of reality as an empirical shared state of existence has been particularly challenged by a revolution in the "virtual" technologies spawned by the computer industry. What is "real" in a society infiltrated by technologies which manipulate images, which replace the written word and which offer entire alternative cyberspace communities accessible only through the window of a computer screen? Slouka claims that reality itself is under siege and that, in particular, the cyberspace revolution has all the potency of a new religion - a cult which is eager to replace this world and its mundane grubbiness with a mathematically pure and clinically correct "heaven".
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a compellingly written and wittily argued attack on McWorld. (INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY )
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- PublisherLittle, Brown
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0316913723
- ISBN 13 9780316913720
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages272
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