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Mirror Worlds : or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox ... How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.Description: 1 online resource (254 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780195344851
  • 0195344855
  • 1280526475
  • 9781280526473
  • 9786610526475
  • 6610526478
  • 1429406984
  • 9781429406987
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 005.3 005
LOC classification:
  • QA76.754.G45 1991
Online resources:
Contents:
Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Notes on the Figures; Prologue; 1 Mirror Worlds?; 2 The Orb; 3 Disembodied Machines; 4 Space, Time and Multi-time; 5 The Deluge; 6 Simple Mind Machines; 7 Building Mirror Worlds; Epilogue; Notes; Index.
Summary: This speculative and explanatory essay takes the reader on a tour of the computer technology of the near future. The author explains how the new software will be made and how it will allow humans to explore their world in unprecedented depth and detail.
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Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Notes on the Figures; Prologue; 1 Mirror Worlds?; 2 The Orb; 3 Disembodied Machines; 4 Space, Time and Multi-time; 5 The Deluge; 6 Simple Mind Machines; 7 Building Mirror Worlds; Epilogue; Notes; Index.

This speculative and explanatory essay takes the reader on a tour of the computer technology of the near future. The author explains how the new software will be made and how it will allow humans to explore their world in unprecedented depth and detail.

Print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-231) and index.

English.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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