Visions of the future : art, technology, and computing in the twenty-first century /
Visions of the future : art, technology, and computing in the twenty-first century /
edited by Clifford A. Pickover.
- xi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- The Virtual Science Center: "A Museum of Everything that Could be Imagined" -- The Future of Student Computer Use -- Forging a Career as a Sculptor from a Career as a Computer Programmer -- The Future of Weather and Climate Prediction -- Computers and Human Communication -- The Universal Robot -- Materials Science: One Morning in the Year 2079 -- Current Techniques and Development of Computer Art -- Computer War Games in the 21st Century -- Will Computers Really THINK in the 21st Century? -- Fractals and Genetics in the Future -- Electronic Storytelling in the 21st Century -- Using Artificial Intelligence to Control Traffic -- Molecular Biology and Futuristic Problem Solving -- Studying Prehistory with Tomorrow's Computers -- Computers and Future Golf -- Artificial Life: Answering the Question of Emergence -- The Future of Ambiguous Art -- Beyond Art -- Frontiers in Computers and Writing -- Index.
0312084811 9780312084813
92035648
Computers and civilization
Computer art
QA76.9.C66 / V57 1992
303.4834
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- The Virtual Science Center: "A Museum of Everything that Could be Imagined" -- The Future of Student Computer Use -- Forging a Career as a Sculptor from a Career as a Computer Programmer -- The Future of Weather and Climate Prediction -- Computers and Human Communication -- The Universal Robot -- Materials Science: One Morning in the Year 2079 -- Current Techniques and Development of Computer Art -- Computer War Games in the 21st Century -- Will Computers Really THINK in the 21st Century? -- Fractals and Genetics in the Future -- Electronic Storytelling in the 21st Century -- Using Artificial Intelligence to Control Traffic -- Molecular Biology and Futuristic Problem Solving -- Studying Prehistory with Tomorrow's Computers -- Computers and Future Golf -- Artificial Life: Answering the Question of Emergence -- The Future of Ambiguous Art -- Beyond Art -- Frontiers in Computers and Writing -- Index.
0312084811 9780312084813
92035648
Computers and civilization
Computer art
QA76.9.C66 / V57 1992
303.4834