Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Cyborg Agonistes
- 2 Some Cyborg Genealogies; or, How the Demon Got Its Bots
- 3 John von Neumann and the Cyborg Incursion into Economics
- 4 The Military, the Scientists, and the Revised Rules of the Game
- 5 Do Cyborgs Dream of Efficient Markets?
- 6 The Empire Strikes Back
- 7 Core Wars
- 8 Machines Who Think versus Machines That Sell
- Envoi
- References
- Index
Envoi
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Cyborg Agonistes
- 2 Some Cyborg Genealogies; or, How the Demon Got Its Bots
- 3 John von Neumann and the Cyborg Incursion into Economics
- 4 The Military, the Scientists, and the Revised Rules of the Game
- 5 Do Cyborgs Dream of Efficient Markets?
- 6 The Empire Strikes Back
- 7 Core Wars
- 8 Machines Who Think versus Machines That Sell
- Envoi
- References
- Index
Summary
Try to imagine the virtual worlds that will be made possible by the power of a shared parallel computer. Imagine a world that has the complexity and subtlety of an aircraft simulation, the accessibility of a video game, the economic importance of the stock market, and the sensory richness of the flight simulator, all of this with the vividness of computer-generated Hollywood special effects. This may be the kind of world in which your children meet their friends and earn their living…. Whatever you imagine virtual worlds will be like, or whatever I imagine, is likely to be wrong.
Daniel W. Hillis, “What Is Massively Parallel Computing?”- Type
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- Information
- Machine DreamsEconomics Becomes a Cyborg Science, pp. 575 - 576Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001