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- 731: A New Technology
- ... pesky personal identification numbers, or PINs. Instead of asking you for a PIN, the ATM will scan the iris of your eye (thats the colored part) to identify you. It may sound like science fiction, but these ATMs are already in use in Tokyo and London, and a few of American banks following suit this summer. "This is still a pilot trial system," says Rob van Naarden, vice president of ...
- 732: Virtual Reality Technology and Society
- ... any three- dimensional reality implemented with stereo viewing goggles and "data" gloves. Inspiration On another level, outside of actual research and development atmospheres, a third term was coined by William Gibson, a popular cyberpunk science-fiction writer of the '80s (Churbuck 1990, 154). He used the term cyberspace in his book Neuromancer in 1984 to refer to a single virtual reality that could be experienced simultaneously by people worldwide: "Cyberspace. A ...
- 733: Freedom of Speech on the Internet
- ... biggest groups that combated the censorship law is the CIEC (Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition). The CIEC found and posted on their website some obvious problems with the CDA. This law would prohibit texts of classic fiction such as the Catcher in the Ryer, Ulysees, Seven Dirty Words by George Carlin, and other materials which, although offensive to some, enjoy the full protection of the First Amendment if published in a newspaper ...
- 734: Censor the Internet?
- ... First Amendment." Hotwired.com. June 2, 1998. "Silencing the Net-The Threat to Freedom of Expression Online." Human Rights Watch. May 1996. Sterling, Bruce. "Short History of the Internet." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. September 1997.
- 735: Nanotechnology: Immortality Or Total Annihilation?
- ... Engines of Creation" published in 1986 should be developed early in the 21st century ("Unbounding" 116). However many scientists still argue that because nanotech has produced absolutely nothing physical, it should be regarded as science fiction (Garfinkel 111). Secondly, nano-doubters rely on scientific fact to condemn nanotech. For example it is argued that we are very far away from ever seeing nanotech due to the fact that when atoms get ...
- 736: The Electronic Computer
- ... Jacquard looms came into widespread use in the early 19th century, and their descendants are still used today. Charles Babbage is the inventor of that 19th century computer was a figure far more common in fiction than in real life - an eccentric mathematician. He applied the concept of the changeable program to the design of a programmable calculator, the Analytical Engine, which was never completed. Babbage's work was forgotten and ...
- 737: Windows NT vs Unix As An Operating System
- ... for everyone in Boston. The idea that machines as powerful as their GE-645 would be sold as personal computers costing only a few thousand dollars only 20 years later would have seemed like science fiction to them. However MULTICS proved more difficult than imagined to implement and Bell Labs withdrew from the project in 1969 as did General Electric, dropping out of the computer business altogether. One of the Bell ...
- 738: Telecommunications
- ... hacek a WWW" Computer Echo Vol. 3/6 (also available on http://omicron.felk.cvut.cz/~comecho/ce/journal.html) Sterling, Bruce 1993 "A short history of the Internet" The magazine Of Fantasy And Science Fiction, Feb. 1993 Vrabec, Vladimir 1996 "Komerce na Internetu" LanCom, Vol. 4/3
- 739: William Gibson's Neuromancer: Cyberspace
- William Gibson's Neuromancer: Cyberspace As described by William Gibson in his science fiction novel Neuromancer, cyberspace was a "Consensual hallucination that felt and looked like a physical space but actuallly was a computer-generated construct representing abstract data." Years later, mankind has realized that Gibson's vision is ...
- 740: Computer Crime: A Increasing Problem
- ... scientific information to personal mail and gossip. Mailing lists were used to send mass quantities of mail to hundreds of people, and the first newsgroup was created for discussing views and opinions in the science fiction world. The networks decentralized structure made the addition of more machines, and the use of different types of machines very simple. As computer technology increased, interest in ArpaNet seemed only to expand. In 1977, a ...
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