Virtual Reality: Exploring the Brave New Technologies of Artificial Experience and Interactive Worlds - From Cyberspace to Teledildonics - Softcover

Rheingold, Howard

 
9780749308896: Virtual Reality: Exploring the Brave New Technologies of Artificial Experience and Interactive Worlds - From Cyberspace to Teledildonics

Synopsis

A book for the general reader on the revolutionary technology of computer-generated artificial worlds, and how it promises and threatens to transform society and business. Virtual reality creates the convincing illusion of being immersed in an artificial world that exists only inside a computer.

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About the Author

Howard Rheingold Howard Rheingold is author of Tools for Thought, Excursions to the Far Side of the Mind, They Have a Word For It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words and Phrases; coauthor of Higher Creativity and The Cognitive Connection; and editor of Whole Earth Review. He is multimedia columnist for Publish magazine and has been consultant to the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment. He has written for the New York Times, Esquire, Psychology Today, Playboy, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Omni.

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