HyperReality - Paradigm for the Third Millenium

Explores the defining features of HyperReality: what it is, how it works and how it could become to the information society what mass media was to the industrial society.

List of contents

List of figures List of contributors Preface Acknowledgements Introduction John Tiffin
Part 1 Technology: 1. The Definition of HyperReality Nobuyoshi Terashima 2. The HyperReality Paradigm John Tiffin 3. HyperVision Narendra Ahuja and Sanghoon Sull 4. Virtual Humans Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Prem Kalra, Laurent Moccozet 5. Artificial Life in HyperReality Katsunori Shimohara
Part 2 Applications: 6. HyperTranslation Minako O'Hagan 7. The HyperClass John Tiffin and Lalita Rajasingham 8. HyperLeisure John Tiffin 9. HyperMillennium John Tiffin and Nobuyoshi Terashima Index

About the author

John Tiffin is Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies at Victoria University of Wellington and Chancellor and founder of the Global Virtual University. Nobuyoshi Terashima is the Dean of the Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunication Studies at Waseda University, Japan.

Product details

• Assisted by: Nobuyoshi Terashima (Editor), Terashima Nobuyoshi (Editor), John Tiffin (Editor), Tiffin John (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.10.2001
• EAN: 9780415261043
• ISBN: 978-0-415-26104-3
• No. of pages: 182
• Weight: 340 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; PHILOSOPHY / General, SCIENCE / General, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI)