The body electric
The body electric
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DOI:
10.1145/253671.253685
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1997-02
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G. Bell
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G. Bell
Content and all electronically encodable information will be in cyberspace 1 [1]! Computers are predicted to be at least 100,000 times more powerful. If hardware (such as semiconductors, magnetic memories , and fiber optics) continues to evolve at the annual factor of 1.60 rate we know as Moore's Law, then computers that are 10 billion times more powerful will exist! Zero cost, communicating computers will just be everywhere, embedded in everything from phones, light switches, motors, buildings, and highways to all seeing, all changing pictures that can converse with us. They'll be the eyes and ears for the blind and deaf, know exactly where they are, and be able to drive vehicles. The only limits to cyberization are our networks and our ability to interface computers with the various parts of the physical world through sensor/effectors consisting of direct connections, voice, gestures, and so on. Driven by a quest for knowledge and the econom