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William Sims Bainbridge has written or edited over forty books on culture and technology, most recently Family History Digital Libraries (2018) and Virtual Local Manufacturing Communities (2019). Past books include Star Worlds (2012), Dimensions of Science Fiction (1986), The Virtual Future (2011), The Spaceflight Revolution (1983), and Goals in Space (1991). He currently is a program director at the National Science Foundation.
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Téléchargez le livre :  Family History Digital Libraries
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Family History Digital Libraries

William Sims Bainbridge


Springer

2018-11-02

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In the modern era, every family and local community can cultivate its own history, endowing living people with meanings inherited from the people of the past, by means of today’s computer-based information and communication technologies. A new...

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Télécharger le livre :  Computer Simulations of Space Societies
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At the intersection of astronautics, computer science, and social science, this book introduces the challenges and insights associated with computer simulation of human society in outer space, and of the dynamics of terrestrial enthusiasm for space exploration. Never...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-06-09
Collection : Space and Society
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Télécharger le livre :  Dynamic Secularization
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This book discusses secularization, arguing that it may be more complex and significant than is generally recognized. Using a number of online exploration methods, the author provides insights into how religion may be changing, and how information technology might be...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-05-11

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Télécharger le livre :  Virtual Sociocultural Convergence
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This book explores the remarkable sociocultural convergence in multiplayer online games and other virtual worlds, through the unification of computer science, social science, and the humanities.  The emergence of online media provides not only new methods for...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2016-07-06

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Télécharger le livre :  The Meaning and Value of Spaceflight
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This book presents the most serious and comprehensive study, by far, of American public perceptions about the meaning of space exploration, analyzing vast troves of questionnaire data collected by many researchers and polling firms over a span of six decades and...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-08-12
Collection : Space and Society
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Télécharger le livre :  Personality Capture and Emulation
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Personality Capture and Emulation is the gateway to an amazing future that actually may be achieved, enabling the preservation and simulation of human personalities at progressively higher levels of fidelity. This challenge is no longer the province merely of...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-11-12
Collection : Human–Computer Interaction Series
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Télécharger le livre :  The Virtual Future
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The newest communication technologies are profoundly changing the world's politics, economies, and cultures, but the specific implications of online game worlds remain mysterious. The Virtual Future employs theories and methods from social science to explore nine very...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2011-09-06
Collection : Springer Series in Immersive Environments
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Télécharger le livre :  Online Worlds: Convergence of the Real and the Virtual
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William Sims Bainbridge Virtual worlds are persistent online computer-generated environments where people can interact, whether for work or play, in a manner comparable to the real world. The most prominent current example is World of Warcraft (Corneliussen and Rettberg...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2009-12-08
Collection : Human–Computer Interaction Series
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Télécharger le livre :  Managing Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno Innovations
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With the convergence of Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information technology and Cognitive science (NBIC) fields promising to change our competitive, operational, and employment landscape in fundamental ways, we find ourselves on the brink of a new technological and...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2006-06-14

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