From Romanticism to Virtual Reality: Charles Babbage, William Gibson and the Construction of Cyberspace.
The article examines the relationship between Romanticism and post modern cyberpunk by looking at the similarities between the invention of all kinds of machines which first imitate and then try to surpass human qualities the creation of imaginary worlds which open up hitherto undreamed of possibili...
| Publicado en: | Interdisciplinary Humanities Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 36 - 51 |
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Spring2007
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