Review: Mirror Worlds
Urednikova ocena - Kirkus ReviewsWithin ten years, Gelernter (Computer Science/Yale) predicts here, scientists will deploy computer systems able to capture extensive data about a particular ""reality"" (hospital, city, etc.), and to present a constantly updated model on a desktop computer. ""A Mirror World is some huge institution's moving, true-to-life mirror image trapped inside a computer--where you can see and grasp it whole,"" Gelernter writes. Citizens will be able to visit these computer models like public squares, gaining unprecedented access to data on what's going on (and the officials in charge, the author intimates, will presumably welcome a chance to have their performance monitored). Building such mirror worlds will be extraordinarily difficult: streams and rivers of raw data need to be constantly flowing; thousands of computers must process the data in parallel fashion; and tying it all together will demand new kinds of software of immense complexity. Gelernter explains clearly the problems to be solved and describes pieces of the technology already working in research labs. Left unchallenged is his assumption that such technology will remain benign--giving honest folk a way of grasping an ever-more complex world instead of providing the powerful owners of such technology a superb way to distort and control ""reality."" Plausible but potentially frightening view of what the future could hold if those who view ""reality"" as merely a vast array of numbers waiting to be crunched have their way.
Review: Mirror Worlds: Or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox...How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean
Uporabnikova ocena - 'Jj - GoodreadsI think it was this book more than anything else that lead Ted Kaczynski to target Gelernter Celotno mnenje
Review: Mirror Worlds: Or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox...How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean
Uporabnikova ocena - Aaron Kent - GoodreadsThis book, published in around 1991 is wonderful for what it gets right and doesn't predict. It still feels really relevant as a simple primer for the internet as it's impacted by data-structures and some kind of AI. The Epilogue is worth the read alone. Celotno mnenje
Review: Mirror Worlds: Or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox...How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean
Uporabnikova ocena - Jessica - GoodreadsGelernter definitely had a vision of the world to come, and I think he figured a lot out. It's just to bad he's such a jerk, and has to speak in a constant stream of metaphor and make up stupid names ... Celotno mnenje
Review: Mirror Worlds: Or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox...How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean
Uporabnikova ocena - Lee T. - GoodreadsStarted strong but dragged in the middle as it is a bit dated. Celotno mnenje
Review: Mirror Worlds: Or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox...How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean
Uporabnikova ocena - BAKU - GoodreadsThe Unabomber didn't like it ~ sent this guy a bomb Celotno mnenje
