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Author Gelernter, David

Title Mirror Worlds : or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox ... How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1992

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Description 1 online resource (254 pages)
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
Analysis Software
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-231) and index
Notes English
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Subject Computer software.
Software engineering.
Computer programs.
software.
COMPUTERS -- Software Development & Engineering -- General.
Computer programs
Computer software
Software engineering
Weltbild
Zukunft
Virtuelle Realität
Software
Logiciels -- Développement.
Génie logiciel.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780195344851
0195344855
1280526475
9781280526473
9786610526475
6610526478
1429406984
9781429406987