Cyberspaced out: manners and mores in the global village
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Messages take new forms as human interactions begin to take place in new mediums. . Conferencing and messaging by computer are making the idea of total connectivity a reality. Total connectivity is not total information, though, since one has to search for the answer to a question.
Publication Name: Analog Science Fiction & Fact
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 1059-2113
Year: 1992
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The power of rotting plants, or how SF solved global warming
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An analysis of global warming and a potential way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. It is suggested that one way to help reduce emissions would be to sequester the carbon dioxide that plants emit when they rot. Specific attention is paid to the management of crop residues.
Publication Name: Analog Science Fiction & Fact
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 1059-2113
Year: 2003
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The grand compositor: The job of the future
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It is argued that contrary to Robert Heinlein's theory that the job of the future will be that of 'encyclopaedic synthesist', the future will be in breaking things apart rather than combining them. Linux and the open source concept are discussed further.
Publication Name: Analog Science Fiction & Fact
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 1059-2113
Year: 2000
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