From Models to Mirror Worlds.

This essay contemplates the media histories and politics of the digital twin: an accurate three-dimensional model designed to offer data-based simulation, predictive capability, and remote control over a material entity. Currently being developed across the spheres of industry, design, and "smart ci...

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Publicado en:Cultural Politics (Duke University Press) Vol. 18; no. 3; pp. 297 - 312
Autor principal: Ng, Amelyn
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Publicado: Duke University Press Nov2022
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