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Book Title
The Virtual Future
ISBN
9781447126898
Subject Area
Educational Technology
Publication Name
The Virtual Future
Publisher
Springer London LTD
Subject
Engineering & Technology, Social Sciences, Computer Science
Publication Year
2013
Series
Springer Series in Immersive Environments
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
235 mm
Author
William Sims Bainbridge
Item Weight
332 g
Item Width
155 mm
Number of Pages
202 Pages

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The newest communication technologies are profoundly changing the world's politics, economies, and cultures, but the specific implications of online game worlds remain mysterious. The Virtual Future employs theories and methods from social science to explore nine very different virtual futures: The Matrix Online, Tabula Rasa, Anarchy Online, Entropia Universe, Star Trek Online, EVE Online, Star Wars Galaxies, World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade, and The Chronicles of Riddick. Each presents a different picture of how technology and society could evolve in coming centuries, but one theme runs through all of them, the attempt to escape the Earth and seek new destinies among the stars. Four decades after the last trip to the moon, a new conception of spaceflight is emerging. Rather than rockets shooting humans across vast physical distances to sterile rocks that lack the resources to sustain life, perhaps robot space probes and orbiting telescopes will glean information about the universe, that humans can then experience inside computer-generated environments much closer to home. All nine of these fantastically rich multiplayer masterpieces have shown myriads of people that really radical alternatives to contemporary society could exist, and has served as a laboratory for examining the consequences. Each is a prototype of new social forms, a utopian subculture, and a simulation of technologies that have yet to be invented. They draw upon several different traditions of science fiction and academic philosophy, and they were created in several nations. By comparing these nine role-playing fantasies, we can better consider what kind of world we want to inhabit in the real future.

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Publisher
Springer London LTD
ISBN-13
9781447126898
eBay Product ID (ePID)
200516125

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Number of Pages
202 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
The Virtual Future
Publication Year
2013
Subject
Engineering & Technology, Social Sciences, Computer Science
Type
Textbook
Author
William Sims Bainbridge
Subject Area
Educational Technology
Series
Springer Series in Immersive Environments
Format
Paperback

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Item Height
235 mm
Item Weight
332 g
Item Width
155 mm

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United Kingdom
Title_Author
William Sims Bainbridge

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