文档介绍：THE AUTHORITY ON THE FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY
August 2007 The Wii
lained p22
Tech That
Makes You
Smarter p77
Holographic
Video at
Home p80
Second
Earth
How Second Life
and Google Earth
are merging into
one Metaverse
Page 38
Saving Holland
from the Sea
Page 50
Exploring the
Microbial World
Inside Us
Page 58
“Artifi cial
Intelligence
Can’t Achieve
Consciousness”
An essay by
David Gelernter
Page 62
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Let’s leave the hardware where it is.
Introducing the software-based
VoIP solution from Microsoft. It’s a
whole new way to look at telephony.
As it turns out, that important
move to VoIP isn’t about ripping and
replacing or big, upfront costs. That’s
because it’s no longer about hardware.
It’s actually about software.
That’s right. Keep your hardware—
your PBX, your gateways, even your
phones. Add software. Software that
integrates with Active Directory,®
Microsoft® Offi ce, Microsoft Exchange
Server, and your PBX. Simply maximize
your current PBX investment and make
it part of your new software-based
VoIP solution.
Because what you have is good.
What you have with the right
software is even better. Learn more
at /voip
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Contents
Volume 110, Number 4
Features
38 Second Earth
The World Wide Web will soon be absorbed into the World Wide Sim: an
immersive, 3-D visual environment bines elements of social virtual
worlds like Second Life and new mapping applications like Google Earth.
What happens when the virtual and real worlds collide? By Wade Roush
50 Saving Holland
herlands deals with climate change. By David Talbot
58 Our Microbial Menagerie
The study of our microörganisms offers insight on health. By Emily Si