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CYBERNAUTE [4 records]

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Record 1 2010-06-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Internet and Telematics
DEF

Someone who travels into cyberspace by using the Internet.

CONT

The cybernauts are an even smaller and at least equally fanatic subset of infonauts; they think not only about what lay beyond the horizon but about what might be found beyond that: they are changing the way we will live in the future.

OBS

cybernaut: Put the word "astronaut" together with the word "cyberspace".

Key term(s)
  • cybersurfer
  • cyber-surfer

French

Domaine(s)
  • Internet et télématique
DEF

Personne qui voyage dans le cyberespace au moyen d’Internet.

OBS

cybernaute : Mot-valise regroupant les termes «cyberespace» et «astronaute».

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Internet y telemática
DEF

[Persona] que navega por el ciberespacio.

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Record 2 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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Record 3 2004-08-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Training of Personnel
  • Education Theory and Methods
  • Internet and Telematics
  • Simulation (Cybernetic Systems)
DEF

A computer system with software for generating virtual objects and worlds, and enabling user interaction.

DEF

A computer with a headpiece like a SCUBA mask, a three-dimensional binocular television and a sensor-webbed glove that make the user float in a computer-created world.

CONT

A clipping divider, a matrix multiplier, a vector generator, a headset, a head position sensor, and a general purpose computer constituted the world's first reality engine in 1970.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Perfectionnement et formation du personnel
  • Théories et méthodes pédagogiques
  • Internet et télématique
  • Simulation (Systèmes cybernétiques)
CONT

L'ordinateur et le logiciel spécifique constituent à eux deux ce que l'on appelle, dans le jargon de la RV, les «moteurs de réalité». Lorsqu'un cybernaute détourne le regard ou remue la main, le moteur de réalité met en place tout le décor d’une simulation en relief par un savant mélange des flux de données émanant de ses capteurs avec des représentations actualisées en permanence du monde virtuel.

CONT

Un masqueur réducteur, un multiplicateur matriciel, un générateur vectoriel, un visiocasque, un capteur de position de la tête et un ordinateur universel composaient la toute première machine de réalité virtuelle au monde.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Capacitación del personal
  • Teorías y métodos pedagógicos
  • Internet y telemática
  • Simulación (Sistemas cibernéticos)
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Record 4 1995-06-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Informatics
CONT

Among cyberintelligentsia, debate rages as to whether the concept of "community" even exists in cyberspace.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Informatique
OBS

Proposé selon le modèle de cybernaute, cybertechnologie, etc.

Spanish

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