Thinking robots, an aware internet, and cyberpunk librarians : the 1992 LITA president's program : presentations by Hans Moravec, Bruce Sterling, and David Brin /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Library and Information Technology Association (U.S.)
Other Authors: Moravec, Hans P., Sterling, Bruce, Brin, David, Miller, R. Bruce (Robert Bruce), 1946-, Wolf, Milton T.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : Library and Information Technology Association, 1992.
Series:LITA president's series.
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Table of 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.