Mirror Worlds Or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean

In this fascinating book - part speculation, part explanation, Gelernter takes us on a tour of the computer technology of the near future. Mirror Worlds, he contends, will allow us to explore the world in unprecedented depth and detail without ever changing out of our pyjamas! Gelernter does much more than just speculate about how this amazing new software will be used - he shows us how it will be made, explaining carefully and in detail how to build a mirror world usingtechnology already available. Mirror Worlds offers a lucid and humanistic account of the coming software revolution, told by a computer scientist at the cutting edge of his field.Gelernter, David is the author of 'Mirror Worlds Or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean' with ISBN 9780195079067 and ISBN 019507906X.