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| Genre/Form: | Congresses |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Thinking robots, an aware internet, and cyberpunk librarians. Chicago : Library and Information Technology Association, 1992 (OCoLC)756415664 |
| Material Type: | Conference publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Hans P Moravec; Bruce Sterling; David Brin; R Bruce Miller; Milton T Wolf; Library and Information Technology Association (U.S.) |
| ISBN: | 0838976255 9780838976258 |
| OCLC Number: | 26502994 |
| Notes: | "A collection of background essays prepared for the 1992 LITA president's program, 'Tools for knowing, environments for growing: visions of the potential of information technology for human development'"--Cover. |
| Description: | iv, 200 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Pigs in cyberspace / Hans Moravec -- Free as air, free as water, free as knowledge / Bruce Sterling -- Gaia, freedom, and human nature : some ironies on the way to creating the network of the future / David Brin -- Letter from Moravec to Penrose / Hans Moravec -- Exotechnology : human efforts to evolve beyond human being / Mel Seesholtz -- The interface : slouching toward the future, or guess who's coming to dinner? / Milton T. Wolf -- The vertices of consciousness and the biology of a machine / Charles Henry -- Nanotechnology : the Library of Congress in your pocket / Roberta Wallis -- Truly intelligent computers / Charles W. Bailey, Jr. -- After the deluge : cyberpunk in the '80s and '90s / Tom Maddox -- Earth and the internet / Kathy Fladland. The transreal experience / William M. Lidwell & Kim J. Trull -- Transcendence at the interface : the architecture of cyborg utopia, or cyberspace utopoids as postmodern cargo cult / David Porush -- Virtual reality in medicine and medical education / Cheryl S. Pace -- Knowbot explorations in similarity space / Martin Halbert -- A day in the life of Mr. D / Eric Lease Morgan -- Symbiotic cyberspace libraries / Billy Barron -- A clear vision of the information / Howard L. Davidson -- Crime and punishment in cyberspace / Sonia Orin Lyris -- The canary on the computer / Steve Cisler -- Ethics and the electronic society / Florence Mason -- Books about the future / R. Bruce Miller. |
| Series Title: | LITA president's series. |
| Responsibility: | R. Bruce Miller and Milton T. Wolf, editors. |
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