Word: virtual
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...curator of the Museum of Modern art in the early 1950s, he organized perhaps the most ambitious, most successful photo exhibition of all time, The Family of Man - 503 shots of shared human experiences gathered from around the world. Edward Steichen Lives in Photography concludes with a large, computerized, virtual reconstruction of the Family of Man. Steichen - the perfectionist, innovator and promoter - would have loved...
...boost in the late 1990s, when two MIT professors hit on RFID tags as a way to help robots "see" the physical objects around them. That's the genius of RFID: it's a way to make the ordinary physical world of people and objects visible to the virtual world that computers inhabit. It maps real space onto virtual space, so the two worlds can talk to each other...
...only get what officials give them. In fact, the TOPOFF includes reporters already, but they are government employees who only pretend they work for the media. They go to "press conferences" and ask officials for comment, and the whole show is even televised - on what is called VNN (a Virtual News Network). Why can't real reporters play that role? And while we're at it, why can't regular residents from Portland volunteer to walk down the street during the simulation - and then do whatever feels natural as the event unfolds? No live ammunition is allowed anywhere near...
...virtual colonoscopy...
CONTEXT Research shows that the new technique is just as effective at spotting cancerous growths as the traditional scope exam. A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine tested similar numbers of patients and found that the virtual exam detected 123 advanced polyps compared with 121 located by the conventional method...