- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Avon; Reprint edition (Feb 6 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0061809519
- ISBN-13: 978-0061809514
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.7 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 45 g
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“An exhilarating book ... Blascovich and Bailenson are ideally situated to write this guide to the new world ... Infinite Reality a must-read for anyone who wants to prepare for the coming revolution.” (Los Angeles Times )
“Read this book if you want to understand the future.” (JARON LANIER, author of You Are Not a Gadget )
“Brilliant, farsighted, and fascinating, Infinite Reality is an essential guide to our futures.” (PHILIP ZIMBARDO, professor emeritus of psychology, Stanford University, and author of The Lucifer Effect )
“Infinite Reality sends chills down the spine.” (MICHAEL S. GAZZANIGA, director of the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara )
“Read this book if you want to understand the future.” (JARON LANIER, author of You Are Not a Gadget )
“Brilliant, farsighted, and fascinating, Infinite Reality is an essential guide to our futures.” (PHILIP ZIMBARDO, professor emeritus of psychology, Stanford University, and author of The Lucifer Effect )
“Infinite Reality sends chills down the spine.” (MICHAEL S. GAZZANIGA, director of the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara )
Book Description
Can our brains recognize where "reality" ends and "virtual" begins? Where will technology lead us in five, fifty, or five hundred years? An unrivaled guide to our digital future that has been cited by the Supreme Court, Infinite Reality is a mind-bending "journey through the virtual universe" (Wall Street Journal). Jim Blascovich and Jeremy Bailenson, two pioneering authorities, explore the profound potential of emerging technologies and reveal how our brains behave in digital worlds.
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This is the future, and it's fascinating, April 5 2011
By HalEH - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Infinite Reality: Avatars Eternal Life New Worlds and the Dawn of the Virtual Revolution (Hardcover)
Infinite Reality is a fantastic read. Blascovich and Bailenson write about virtual reality, cutting-edge technology, and how we as humans will be affected by both in the upcoming years. If you're an early adopter, you can't afford not to read this book. And, even if you don't consider yourself "tech-y", it's still a super book to pick up. It's a page-turner - I wanted to figure out what was going to happen next, and how all of the various technologies and interventions that are mentioned in the book will affect me in the years to come. IR is an easy read, it's fascinating, and it will certainly be talked about for a while...it offers a glimpse into the future that can't be missed.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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A transformative read, April 6 2011
By Jeff Hancock - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Infinite Reality: Avatars Eternal Life New Worlds and the Dawn of the Virtual Revolution (Hardcover)
This is the kind of book that blows your mind on a regular basis. The studies that Bailenson and Blascovich design and report on are difficult to stop thinking about. These authors look at technology as a way to understand who we are and who we will become, answering key philosophical and psychological questions along the way.They have described their approach as Transformative Social Interaction, and if anything, this is an understatement. These researchers use the virtual world as a testbed to examine psychological issues in ways that simply were not possible before. And rather than this being reported to you through the lens of a journalist, this comes straight from the pioneers in the field.
And while its easy to imagine this kind of heady stuff being dense and difficult to read, or full of techie jargon, your imagination would be wrong. The book is a delight to read, with humor and insight and intellectual curiosity mixed in equal doses.
I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the human condition, in how technology is transforming our future, or in reading some of the most cutting-edge, fascinating psychology out there.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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Must read, April 5 2011
By Joris - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Infinite Reality: Avatars Eternal Life New Worlds and the Dawn of the Virtual Revolution (Hardcover)
Now that the boundaries between virtual and real worlds are fading, it is good moment to review the science behind the new reality that shapes so much of our everyday life. Infinite reality gives a great overview of the science behind the new world in which we are engaging more and more. The authors cover a large number of interesting insights that have been investigated over the last decade. I think this book is not only a must read for futurists and science lovers, but for anyone interested to learn how virtual interactions are influencing our behavior, social relations, health, and well-being.
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