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Thinking robots, an aware internet, and cyberpunk librarians : the 1992 LITA president's program : presentations by Hans Moravec, Bruce Sterling, and David Brin
- Title
- Thinking robots, an aware internet, and cyberpunk librarians : the 1992 LITA president's program : presentations by Hans Moravec, Bruce Sterling, and David Brin / R. Bruce Miller and Milton T. Wolf, editors.
- Publication
- Chicago : Library and Information Technology Association, 1992.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- iv, 200 pages; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- LITA president's series
- Uniform Title
- LITA president's series
- Subject
- Libraries > Automation > Congresses
- Information technology > Congresses
- Cybernetics
- Artificial intelligence
- Forecasting
- Library Automation > trends
- Information Systems > trends
- Cybernetics
- Artificial Intelligence
- Forecasting
- cybernetics
- artificial intelligence
- Artificial intelligence
- Information technology
- Libraries > Automation
- Informatiemaatschappij
- Internet
- Bibliotheken
- Toekomstverwachtingen
- Genre/Form
- Congress
- proceedings (reports)
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Actes de congrès.
- Note
- "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.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0838976255
- 9780838976258
- LCCN
- 92030742
- OCLC
- ocm26502994
- 26502994
- SCSB-2013185
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library