The Virtual World and the Digital Apocalypse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Virtual World and the Digital Apocalypse write by Aragula Satyen Rao. This book was released on 2012. The Virtual World and the Digital Apocalypse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Echoes of Tomorrow
Echoes of Tomorrow - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Echoes of Tomorrow write by Jacob McCoy. This book was released on 2024-04-05. Echoes of Tomorrow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The year was 2034; the world had transformed into a digital utopia. Once a tool to simplify tasks, technology had become society's very fabric. Artificial intelligence managed everything from climate control to global finance, and virtual reality was the preferred mode of travel. Humanity has achieved unprecedented levels of efficiency and comfort. Yet, beneath this sleek veneer of progress, a digital storm was brewing.
Exodus to the Virtual World
Exodus to the Virtual World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exodus to the Virtual World write by Edward Castronova. This book was released on 2008-11-11. Exodus to the Virtual World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Virtual worlds have exploded out of online game culture and now capture the attention of millions of ordinary people: husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, workers, retirees. Devoting dozens of hours each week to massively multiplayer virtual reality environments (like World of Warcraft and Second Life), these millions are the start of an exodus into the refuge of fantasy, where they experience life under a new social, political, and economic order built around fun. Given the choice between a fantasy world and the real world, how many of us would choose reality? Exodus to the Virtual World explains the growing migration into virtual reality, and how it will change the way we live--both in fantasy worlds and in the real one.
All and Nothing
All and Nothing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook All and Nothing write by Martin Burckhardt. This book was released on 2017-10-06. All and Nothing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why 1 = presence and 0 = absence and the digital world formula is x = xn: an exploration of meaning in a universe of infinite replication. In the beginning was the Zero, and the Zero was with God, and God was the One. —All and Nothing In 1854, the British mathematician George Boole presented the idea of a universe the elements of which could be understood in terms of the logic of absence and presence: 0 and 1, all and nothing—the foundation of binary code. The Boolean digits 0 and 1 do not designate a quantity. In the Boolean world, x times x always equals x; all and nothing meet in the formula x = xn. As everything becomes digitized, God the clockmaker is replaced by God the programmer. This book–described by its authors as “a theology for the digital world”—explores meaning in a digital age of infinite replication, in a world that has dissolved into information and achieved immortality by turning into a pure sign. All and Nothing compares information that spreads without restraint to a hydra—the mythological monster that grew two heads for every one that was cut off. Information is thousand-headed and thousand-eyed because Hydra's tracks cannot be deleted. It shows that when we sit in front of a screen, we are actually on the other side, looking at the world as an uncanny reminder of the nondigitized. It compares our personal data to our shadows and our souls, envisioning the subconscious laid out on a digital bier like a corpse. The digital world, the authors explain, summons forth fantasies of a chiliastic or apocalyptic nature. The goal of removing the representative from mathematics has now been achieved on a greater scale than Boole could have imagined.
End-Game
End-Game - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook End-Game write by Lorenzo DiTommaso. This book was released on 2024-09-02. End-Game available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Video games are a global phenomenon, international in their scope and democratic in their appeal. This is the first volume dedicated to the subject of apocalyptic video games. Its two dozen papers engage the subject comprehensively, from game design to player experience, and from the perspectives of content, theme, sound, ludic textures, and social function. The volume offers scholars, students, and general readers a thorough overview of this unique expression of the apocalyptic imagination in popular culture, and novel insights into an important facet of contemporary digital society.
