From: Joel Crawford Subject: Re: SOC: virtual reality changing lives in the 90s Date: 5 Dec 1995 10:00:13 GMT Message-ID: <4a157d$cr4@news.xs4all.nl> Organization: Crawford Systems From: Joel Crawford Could you say a little more about each of these books? What are the strong points of each? [Well, perhaps John (infoman007@aol.com), perhaps can elaborate on his recommendations. Below is a short IMHO: City of Bits has a great WWW page: http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/City_of_Bits/index.html Virtual Reality by Howard Rheingold is old (my copy has a copyright of 1991, for current VR tech info...that's a tad dated). However, it has basic information about VR's and it's pioneers the book is classic. For a tiny review and a picture of the cover see-- Books Which Call Themselves "Techno" http://bookweb.cwis.uci.edu:8042/Books/Techno/techno.html Life on the Screen by Sherry Turkle I didn't find a listing for "Life on the Screen" in the database "Books in Print", but I did find a 1995 book by Sherry Turkle called: Beyond Dreams and Beasts: Computers and the Culture of Simulation T.E.]