MIRROR WORLDS: Or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox...How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean - Softcover

GELERNTER

Softcover

ISBN 10: 019507906X ISBN 13: 9780195079067

Verlag: Oxford University Press USA, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

Imagine looking at your computer screen and seeing reality--an image of your city, for instance, complete with moving traffic patterns, or a picture that sketches the state of an entire corporation at this second. These representations are called Mirror Worlds, and according to David Gelernter they will soon be available to everyone. Mirror Worlds are high-tech voodoo dolls: by interacting with the images, you interact with reality. Indeed, Mirror Worlds will revolutionize the use of computers, transforming them from (mere) handy tools to crystal balls which will allow us to see the world more vividly and see into it more deeply. In this fascinating book Gelernter takes us on a guided tour of the computer technology of the near future. Mirror Worlds, he contends, will allow us to explore the world in unprecedented depth and detail without leaving the comfort of home. And he doesn't just speculate about how this amazing new software will be used--he shows us how it will be made, explaining carefully and in detail how to build a Mirror World using technology already available.

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David Gelernter is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Yale University and an expert in programming languages and methods, and in artificial intelligence.

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• Verlag: Oxford University Press USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 019507906X
• ISBN 13: 9780195079067
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
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