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Holographic Visions - A History of New Science (Hardcover)
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Holographic Visions - A History of New Science (Hardcover)
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Holography exploded on the scientific world in 1964, but its slow
fuse had been burning much longer. Over the next four decades, the
echoes of that explosion reached scientists, engineers, artists and
popular culture. Emerging from classified military research,
holography evolved to represent the power of post-war physics, an
aesthetic union of art and science, the countercultural meanderings
of holism, a cottage industry for waves of would-be entrepreneurs
and a fertile plot device for science fiction.
New working cultures sprang up to mutate holography, redefining
its products, reshaping its audiences and reconceiving its
applications. The outcomes included ever more sublime holograms and
exquisitely sensitive measuring techniques--but also priority
disputes, prurience and poisonous business rivalries.
New subjects cross intellectual borders, and so do their
explanations. This book draws on the history and philosophy of
science and technology, social studies, politics and cultural
history to trace the trajectory of holography. The result is an
in-depth account of how new science emerges. Based on unprecedented
interviews with pioneer holographers and extensive archival
research, it reveals how science, technology, art and wider culture
are entwined in the modern world.
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