Mirror Worlds
or The Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox... How it Will Happen and What it Will Mean
Published on 26. August 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-19-507906-7 (ISBN)
Description
In this fascinating book - part speculation, part explanation, Gelernter takes us on a 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 ever changing out of our pyjamas! Gelernter does much more than 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. Mirror Worlds offers a lucid and humanistic account of the coming software revolution, told by a computer scientist at the cutting edge of his field.
Reviews / Votes
'This is a fascinating book, and important from the point of view of thinking about the future of software. It's also very easy to read, being written in a conversational style, not American academic jargon.'The Guardian 'most unusual and perhaps most speculative'
Clifford A. Pickover, Nature
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Illustrations
halftones, line figures
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
421 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-507906-7 (9780195079067)
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David Gelernter
Mirror Worlds
or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox...How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean
E-Book
01/1993
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€31.49
Available for download
David Gelernter
Mirror Worlds
or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox...How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean
E-Book
01/1993
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€31.49
Available for download
Person
David Gelernter is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Yale University and an expert in programming languages and methods, and in artificial intelligence.
Content
Mirror worlds?; The orb; Disembodied machines; Space, time and multi-time; The deluge; Simple mind machines; Building mirror worlds; Epilogue; Notes; Index.