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William Sims Bainbridge has written or edited over forty books on culture and technology, most recently Family History Digital Libraries (2018) and Virtual Local Manufacturing Communities (2019). Past books include Star Worlds (2012), Dimensions of Science Fiction (1986), The Virtual Future (2011), The Spaceflight Revolution (1983), and Goals in Space (1991). He currently is a program director at the National Science Foundation.
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Family History Digital Libraries

William Sims Bainbridge

Springer

2018-11-02

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In the modern era, every family and local community can cultivate its own history, endowing living people with meanings inherited from the people of the past, by means of today’s computer-based information and communication technologies. A new...

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Télécharger le livre : Computer Simulations of Space Societies
Computer Simulations of Space Societies
William Sims Bainbridge
At the intersection of astronautics, computer science, and social science, this book introduces the challenges and insights associated with computer simulation of human society in outer space, and of the dynamics of terrestrial enthusiasm for space exploration. Never...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-06-09
Collection : Space and Society PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre : Dynamic Secularization
Dynamic Secularization
William Sims Bainbridge
This book discusses secularization, arguing that it may be more complex and significant than is generally recognized. Using a number of online exploration methods, the author provides insights into how religion may be changing, and how information technology might be...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-05-11
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Télécharger le livre : Virtual Sociocultural Convergence
Virtual Sociocultural Convergence
William Sims Bainbridge
This book explores the remarkable sociocultural convergence in multiplayer online games and other virtual worlds, through the unification of computer science, social science, and the humanities.  The emergence of online media provides not only new methods for...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2016-07-06
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Télécharger le livre : The Meaning and Value of Spaceflight
The Meaning and Value of Spaceflight
William Sims Bainbridge
This book presents the most serious and comprehensive study, by far, of American public perceptions about the meaning of space exploration, analyzing vast troves of questionnaire data collected by many researchers and polling firms over a span of six decades and...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-08-12
Collection : Space and Society ePub

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Télécharger le livre : Personality Capture and Emulation
Personality Capture and Emulation
William Sims Bainbridge
Personality Capture and Emulation is the gateway to an amazing future that actually may be achieved, enabling the preservation and simulation of human personalities at progressively higher levels of fidelity. This challenge is no longer the province merely of...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-11-12
Collection : Human–Computer Interaction Series ePub

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Télécharger le livre : eGods
eGods
William Sims Bainbridge
What is the relationship between religion and multi-player online roleplaying games? Are such games simply a secular distraction from traditional religious practices, or do they in fact offer a different route to the sacred? In eGods, a leading scholar in the study of...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2013-02-25
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Télécharger le livre : The Virtual Future
The Virtual Future
William Sims Bainbridge
The newest communication technologies are profoundly changing the world's politics, economies, and cultures, but the specific implications of online game worlds remain mysterious. The Virtual Future employs theories and methods from social science to explore nine very...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2011-09-06
Collection : Springer Series in Immersive Environments ePub

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Télécharger le livre : Online Worlds: Convergence of the Real and the Virtual
Online Worlds: Convergence of the Real and the Virtual
William Sims Bainbridge
William Sims Bainbridge Virtual worlds are persistent online computer-generated environments where people can interact, whether for work or play, in a manner comparable to the real world. The most prominent current example is World of Warcraft (Corneliussen and Rettberg...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2009-12-08
Collection : Human–Computer Interaction Series ePub

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Télécharger le livre : Managing Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno Innovations
Managing Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno Innovations
William Sims Bainbridge
With the convergence of Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information technology and Cognitive science (NBIC) fields promising to change our competitive, operational, and employment landscape in fundamental ways, we find ourselves on the brink of a new technological and...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2006-06-14
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