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Dawn of the New Everything: A Journey Through Virtual Reality

English

By (author): Jaron Lanier

Named a Best Book of the Year by the Economist, Wall Street Journal & Vox

The father of virtual reality (Sunday Times) explains why virtual reality presents the ultimate test for humanity.


Essential reading, not just for VR-watchers but for anyone interested in how society came to be how it is, and what it might yet become Economist

Welcome to a mind-expanding, life-enhancing, world-changing adventure.

Virtual reality has long been one of the dominant clichés of science fiction. Now virtual reality is a reality: from the startling beauty of lifelike video games to the place where war veterans overcome PTSD, surgeries are trialled, and aircraft and cities are designed. VR is, in fact now, the most effective device ever invented for researching what a human being actually is and how we think and feel.

More than thirty years ago, legendary computer scientist, visionary and artist Jaron Lanier pioneered its invention. Here he blends scientific investigation, philosophical thought experiment and his memoir of a life lived at the centre of digital innovation to explain what VR really is: the science of comprehensive illusion; the extension of the intimate magic of earliest childhood into adulthood; a hint of what life would be like without any limits.

We are standing on the threshold of an entirely new realm of human creativity, expression, communication and experience, and as we use VR to test our relationship with reality, it may test us in return.

Vivid and absolutely extraordinary Evening Standard

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Product Details
  • Weight: 255g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 06 Sep 2018
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781784701536

About Jaron Lanier

Jaron Lanier is a philosopher and computer scientist who has spent his career pushing the transformative power of modern technology to its limits. From coining the term 'Virtual Reality' and creating the world's first immersive avatars to developing cutting-edge medical imaging and surgical techniques Lanier is one of the premier designers and engineers at work today. He is also one of the most celebrated technology writers in the world whose previous book Who Owns the Future? was named the most important book of 2013 by Joe Nocera in The New York Times and whose first book You Are Not a Gadget was named one of the ten best books of 2010 by Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times. He was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time one of the 100 top public intellectuals by Foreign Policy and one of the top 50 World Thinkers by Prospect. He is currently Interdisciplinary Scientist at Microsoft Research and a highly accomplished musician with one of the largest and most varied collections of rare instruments in the world all of which he plays.

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