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In this deep future, which could be years or millennia away, civilisation has reached technological maturity. Going beyond post-scarcity and post-work utopias, we reach a post-instrumental utopia ...
Digital immortality (or " virtual immortality ") [1] is the hypothetical concept of storing (or cloning) a person's personality in digital substrate, i.e., a computer, robot or cyberspace [2] ( mind uploading ). The result might look like an avatar behaving, reacting, and thinking like a person on the basis of that person's digital archive.
Digital camera. Front and back of Canon PowerShot A 95 (c.2004), a once typical pocket-sized compact camera, with mode dial, optical viewfinder, and articulating screen. A digital camera, also called a digicam, [1] is a camera that captures photographs in digital memory. Most cameras produced today are digital, [2] largely replacing those that ...
Artificial intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems.It is a field of research in computer science that develops and studies methods and software that enable machines to perceive their environment and use learning and intelligence to take actions that maximize their chances of achieving defined goals.
Technological evolution is a theory of radical transformation of society through technological development. This theory originated with Czech philosopher Radovan Richta. [5] Mankind In Transition; A View of the Distant Past, the Present and the Far Future, Masefield Books, 1993. [6] Technology (which Richta defines as "a material entity created ...
Technology, society and life or technology and culture refers to the inter-dependency, co-dependence, co-influence, and co-production of technology and society upon one another. Evidence for this synergy has been found since humanity first started using simple tools. The inter-relationship has continued as modern technologies such as the ...
An example of the former was the gradual roll-out of DVD (digital video disc) as a development intended to follow on from the previous optical technology compact disc. By contrast, disruptive technologies are those where a new method replaces the previous technology and makes it redundant, for example, the replacement of horse-drawn carriages ...
In digital preservation and collection management, discovery and identification of objects is aided by the use of assigned identifiers and accurate descriptive metadata. An identifier is a unique label that is used to reference an object or record, usually manifested as a number or string of numbers and letters.