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INFONAUT [1 record]

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Record 1 2010-06-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
DEF

Someone who rides the superhighway in search of information or entertainment.

CONT

In 1983, the Warner managers had hired Alan Kay to gather the best and brightest of the infonauts: the architects of the next computer revolutions, the hypermedia designers and roboticists, the AI hackers and hardware wizards, the miniaturizers and interfacers ... in order to plan the entertainment technologies of the twenty-first century.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
OBS

Par analogie à internaute et cosmonaute. Voir aussi cybernaute et inforoutard.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tratamiento de la información (Informática)
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