副標(biāo)題：
Avatars, Eternal Life, New Worlds, and the Dawn of the Virtual Revolution
書籍簡介：
How do The Matrix, Avatar, and Tron reveal the future of existence? can our brains recognize where "reality" ends and "virtual" begins? What would it mean to live eternally in a digital universe? Where will technology lead us in five, fifty, and five hundred years?
Two innovative scientists explore the mystery and reality of the virtual and examine the profound potential of emerging digital technologies
Welcome to the future . . .
The coming explosion of immersive digital technology, combined with recent progress in unlocking how the mind works, will soon revolutionize our lives in ways only science fiction has imagined. In Infinite Reality, Jeremy Bailenson (Stanford University) and Jim Blascovich (University of California, Santa Barbara)—two of virtual reality's pioneering authorities whose pathbreaking research has mapped how our brain behaves in digital worlds—take us on a mind-bending journey through the virtual universe.
Infinite Reality explores what emerging computer technologies and their radical applications will mean for the future of human life and society. Along the way, Bailenson and Blascovich examine the timeless philosophical questions of the self and "reality" that arise through the digital experience; explain how virtual reality's latest and future forms—including immersive video games and social-networking sites—will soon be seamlessly integrated into our lives; show the many surprising practical applications of virtual reality, from education and medicine to sex and warfare; and probe further-off possibilities like "total personality downloads" that would allow your great-great-grandchildren to have a conversation with "you" a century or more after your death.
Equally fascinating, farsighted, and profound, Infinite Reality is an essential guide to our virtual future, where the experience of being human will be deeply transformed.
About the Author
Jim Blascovich is the director and co-founder of the Research Center for Virtual Environments at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is Distinguished Professor of Psychology. Professor Blascovich has served as the president of international scientific societies, including the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, and he has been invited to lecture on social neuroscience and virtual reality topics worldwide.
作者簡介：
杰里米·拜倫森是斯坦福大學(xué)虛擬人機交互實驗室的創(chuàng)始主管。他曾經(jīng)被《前線》、《面面俱到》、《今日》、《時代》、《探索》、《高等教育編年史》節(jié)目報道過,也曾出現(xiàn)在《紐約時報》和《紐約時報》雜志的科學(xué)、健康、世界和風(fēng)格版上。
吉姆·布拉斯科維奇是加州大學(xué)圣芭芭拉分校虛擬環(huán)境研究中心的主管和聯(lián)合創(chuàng)始人，他也是該校的著名心理學(xué)教授。他曾擔(dān)任一些國際科學(xué)學(xué)會的主席，包括人格與社會心理學(xué)學(xué)會和實驗社會心理學(xué)學(xué)會會長，被世界各地邀請講授社會神經(jīng)科學(xué)和虛擬現(xiàn)實方面的主題。
出版時間：
2011-4-5
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