Virtual Reality

Rheingold, Howard

ISBN 10: 0436412128 / ISBN 13: 9780436412127

Published by Secker & Warburg, London, 1991

About this Item

Book has some shelf wear and tanned page edges. Wrapper is price clipped with faded spine, splitting two tops of hinges, heavy rubbing to edges of covers, repaired splits to rear cover and general edge wear.

Seller Inventory # 008546

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Virtual Reality
• Publisher: Secker & Warburg, London
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0436412128
• ISBN 13: 9780436412127
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science, Computers and Technology

About this title

Synopsis

The first book for the general reader on the revolutionary technology of computer-generated artificial worlds--virtual reality. Rheingold weaves the philosophical, psychological, social, and economic implications of this fast-breaking research into a narrative that reaches back to cave paintings and forward to the 21st century where it will affect our daily lives.

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.