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Stefan Helmreich --- computers --- biologie --- cybercultuur --- internet --- artificiële intelligentie --- nieuwe media --- 791.5 --- Biological systems --- Systèmes biologiques --- Computer simulation --- Research --- Philosophy --- Simulation par ordinateur --- Recherche --- Philosophie --- Biosystems --- Systems, Biological --- Biology --- System theory --- Systems biology --- Computer simulation&delete& --- Santa Fe Institute (Santa Fe, N.M.) --- SFI (Santa Fe Institute) --- S.F.I. (Santa Fe Institute)
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Silicon Second Nature takes us on an expedition into an extraordinary world where nature is made of bits and bytes and life is born from sequences of zeroes and ones. Artificial Life is the brainchild of scientists who view self-replicating computer programs--such as computer viruses--as new forms of life. Anthropologist Stefan Helmreich's look at the social and simulated worlds of Artificial Life--primarily at the Santa Fe Institute, a well-known center for studies in the sciences of complexity--introduces readers to the people and programs connected with this unusual hybrid of computer science and biology. When biology becomes an information science, when DNA is downloaded into virtual reality, new ways of imagining "life" become possible. Through detailed dissections of the artifacts of Artificial Life, Helmreich explores how these novel visions of life are recombining with the most traditional tales told by Western culture. Because Artificial Life scientists tend to see themselves as masculine gods of their cyberspace creations, as digital Darwins exploring frontiers filled with primitive creatures, their programs reflect prevalent representations of gender, kinship, and race, and repeat origin stories most familiar from mythical and religious narratives. But Artificial Life does not, Helmreich says, simply reproduce old stories in new software. Much like contemporary activities of cloning, cryonics, and transgenics, the practice of simulating and synthesizing life in silico challenges and multiplies the very definition of vitality. Are these models, as some would claim, actually another form of the real thing? Silicon Second Nature takes Artificial Life as a symptom and source of our mutating visions of life itself.
Biological systems --- Biology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Biology - General --- Biosystems --- Systems, Biological --- System theory --- Systems biology --- Computer simulation --- Research. --- Philosophy. --- Research --- Philosophy --- Santa Fe Institute (Santa Fe, N.M.) --- SFI (Santa Fe Institute) --- S.F.I. (Santa Fe Institute) --- a life. --- anthropology. --- artificial intelligence. --- artificial life. --- biology. --- computer programs. --- computer science. --- computer viruses. --- computer. --- cultural impacts. --- cultural studies. --- cyberspace. --- digital world. --- dna. --- ethnography. --- extraordinary. --- gender. --- human bias. --- information science. --- kinship. --- programming. --- race. --- santa fe institute. --- science. --- self replicating computer program. --- spiritual. --- virtual reality. --- worldwide web.
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Each year, the Annual Report explores a challenge facing the developing world and how the World Bank is responding to help people help themselves. Recent themes have included technology, food prices, and the financial crisis, all within the framework of poverty reduction. Regional sections highlight the outcomes of Bank initiatives and present vignettes about how individuals are impacted positively by Bank work. (World bank, viewed March 17, 2020)
Economic assistance --- Banks and banking, International --- Economics. --- Banks and banking, International. --- Economic assistance. --- World Bank --- International Finance Corporation --- Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency --- International Finance Corporation. --- Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency. --- World Bank. --- Capital --- Conditions, Economic --- Consumption --- Cost of Living --- Easterlin Hypothesis --- Economic Conditions --- Economic Factors --- Economic Policies --- Economic Policy --- Economics, Home --- Factors, Economic --- Home Economics --- Household Consumption --- Macroeconomic Factors --- Microeconomic Factors --- Policies, Economic --- Policy, Economic --- Production --- Remittances --- Utility Theory --- Consumer Price Index --- Condition, Economic --- Consumer Price Indices --- Consumption, Household --- Economic Condition --- Economic Factor --- Factor, Economic --- Factor, Macroeconomic --- Factor, Microeconomic --- Factors, Macroeconomic --- Factors, Microeconomic --- Household Consumptions --- Hypothesis, Easterlin --- Index, Consumer Price --- Indices, Consumer Price --- Living Cost --- Living Costs --- Remittance --- Theories, Utility --- Theory, Utility --- Utility Theories --- Economic aid --- Foreign aid program --- Foreign assistance --- Grants-in-aid, International --- International economic assistance --- International grants-in-aid --- International banking --- Offshore banking (Finance) --- Transnational banking --- B.I.R.D. --- B.I.R.F. --- Banca di ricostruzione e sviluppo --- Banca Internațională pentru Reconstrucție și Dezvoltare --- Banca internazionale per la ricostruzione e lo sviluppo --- Banca Mondială --- Banca mondiale --- Banca ricostruzione e sviluppo --- Banco Internacional de Reconstrucción y Fomento --- Banco Mundial --- Bank al-Dawlī --- Bank al-Dawlī lil-Inshāʼ wa-al-Taʻmīr --- Bank Dunia --- Bank Światowy --- Banque internationale pour la reconstruction et le développement --- Banque mondiale --- BIRD --- BIRF --- BM --- Dėlkhiĭn Bank --- Dhanāgār Bibhab Lok --- I.B.R.D. --- IBRD --- International Bank for Reconstruction and Development --- Internationale Bank für Wiederaufbau und Entwicklung --- Kokusai Fukkō Kaihatsu Ginkō --- Kukche Puhŭng Kaebal Ŭnhaeng --- Lōka Băṅkuva --- MBRR --- Mezhdunarodnyĭ bank dli︠a︡ rekonstrukt︠s︡ii i razvitii︠a︡ --- Międzynarodowy Bank Rozwoju i Odbudowy --- Mirovoĭ Bank --- Msopʻlio Bankis --- Ngân hàng Thế giới --- Prapañca Byāṅku --- Segye Ŭnhaeng --- Sekai Ginkō --- Shi jie yin hang --- Shih chieh yin hang --- Svitovyĭ Bank --- Svitovyĭ bank rekonstrukt︠s︡iï i rozvytku --- Thanākhān Lōk --- Världsbanken --- Verdensbanken --- Világbank --- Viśva Baiṅka --- Vsemirnyĭ Bank --- Welt Bank --- Weltbank --- World Bank Group. --- MIGA --- Multilaterale Investitions-Garantie-Agentur --- Wakālah al-Dawlīyah li-Ḍamān al-Istithmār --- M.I.G.A. --- International finance corporation --- Internationale financieringsmaatschappij --- IFC --- Société financière internationale --- Mezhdunarodnai︠a︡ finansovai︠a︡ korporat︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Miz︠h︡narodna finansova korporat︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Międzynarodowe Towarzystwo Finansowe --- I.F.C. --- MFK --- Corporación Financiera Internacional --- CFI --- SFI --- Economics --- Banca Mondial --- Bank al-Dawl --- Kokusai Fukkō Kaihatsu Gink --- Mezhdunarodnyĭ bank dli͡a rekonstrukt͡sii i razvitii͡ --- Sekai Gink --- Svitovyĭ bank rekonstrukt͡siï i rozvytku --- Economic policy --- International economic relations --- Conditionality (International relations) --- Financial institutions, International --- International finance --- Mezhdunarodnai͡a finansovai͡a korporat͡sii͡ --- Miz͡hnarodna finansova korporat͡sii͡ --- World Bank Group --- Hamashkharhayin Banki --- Mezhdunarodnyĭ bank dli͡a rekonstrukt͡sii i razvitii͡a --- Svetska Banka --- World Bank Group. World Bank --- البنك الدولي --- بنك الدولي --- 世界銀行 --- 世界银行 --- 国際復興開発銀行 --- Дэлхийн Банк --- Wereldbank --- Internationale bank voor herstel en ontwikkeling
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