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True names by Vernor Vinge and the opening of the cyberspace frontier /

A collection of articles and essays about the new frontier of the Internet, especially a direct interface between brain and computer that enables game players of the future to actually experience the world of their fantasies.

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Group Author: Frenkel, James (Editor); Vinge, Vernor.
Published: Tor,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: [2001]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Vinge, Vernor. > True names
Science fiction, American > History and criticism
Telecommunication in literature
Computers in literature
Cyberspace
Internet
Summary: A collection of articles and essays about the new frontier of the Internet, especially a direct interface between brain and computer that enables game players of the future to actually experience the world of their fantasies.
Item Description: "A Tom Doherty Associates book."
Includes the text of True names, originally published by Dell Books in Binary star 5 in 1981.
Carrier Form: 352 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN: 9780312862077
0312862075
Index Number: PS3572
CLC: I712.074
Call Number: I712.074/T866
Contents: A time of transition/the human connection / Danny Hillis -- True Nyms and Crypto anarchy / Timothy C. May -- Eventful history: version 1.x / John M. Ford -- How is the NII like a prison? / Alan Wexelblat -- Intelligent Software / Pattie Maes -- The right to read / Richard M. Stallman -- Cryptography and the politics of one's true name / Leonard N. Foner -- Habitat: Reports from an online community / Chip Morningstar and F. Randall Farmer -- True Magic / Mark Pesce -- True Names / Vernor Vinge -- Afterword / Marvin Minsky.

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