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Johannes Ernst

Took my copy of Mirror Worlds off the shelf today and started re-reading it. If you don’t know about it, it’s one of the seminal techno visions out there, published in 1992 when nobody, including the computer science professor author, had heard of it.

People usually think of it these days as predicting the web, but the vision is really much broader and very much worthwhile re-reading. Eg his view is really VR+social+agents kid of web, not just html pages sitting next to each other.

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Johannes Ernst

And of course the other thing people remember about it is the Unabomber whose bomb paralyzed Gelernter, and Gelernter’s hard-authoritarian shift after that experience.
But even if strongly disagreeing with that, there are so many good ideas in Mirror Worlds that even today would be worthwhile providing to the world.
Top sight, anybody? We wish…

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