Catalogo Experimenta 06
Catalogo Experimenta 06
Catalogo Experimenta 06
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INDEX SCIENTIFIC STUDIES<br />
150<br />
1 Global System for Mobile Communication, it is the second generation<br />
of cellular phones. The first was of the analogical type. Data transmission<br />
is possible at a speed of 9.6-14.4 Kbit/sec.<br />
2 General Packet Radio Service, it is the transition technology between<br />
GSM and UMTS. Is characterised by a constant connection in the Web,<br />
in practice the user may telephone and navigate at the same time at a<br />
speed which can reach a maximum of 140.8 Kbit/sec.<br />
3 Universal Mobile Telecommunications System represents the third generation<br />
of cellular phones. Allows an operational speed which, theoretically,<br />
can reach 1920 Kbit/sec.<br />
4 Wireless Fidelity is the commercial name of the local Webs without<br />
wires (WLAN) based on specific IEEE 802.11. Transmission speed of the<br />
standard IEEE 802.11 in version “b” reaches 11 Mbit/sec while the version<br />
“g” can reach 54 Mbit/sec.<br />
5 Familiar term to indicate the Internet Web, used by Tim Berners-Lee,<br />
the researcher who, in 1990, at CERN (www.cern.ch), invented the World<br />
Wide Web in the form used today.<br />
6 The term indicates the inequality in the possibility of access and use of<br />
the technologies of the so-called information society.<br />
7 The term cyberpunk is born from the current literary homonymy that<br />
has in William Gibson, author of Neuromancer (Gibson 1984), one of<br />
the major exponent. Many groups of the Internet underground have<br />
in this literature their principal reference and they have borrowed the<br />
neologism and manner of expression to create their real own virtual<br />
community.<br />
8 The means of interaction man-machine can reach levels of simulation<br />
in the real world that are extremely credible but only with particular<br />
hardware and software configuration. The term virtual immersionable<br />
reality indicates the use of equipment which isolates the subject from<br />
the real world immersing them in the virtual through the use of stereoscope<br />
visors, gloves or whole jumpsuits with sensors in order to reveal<br />
the position and movement of those who wear it.<br />
9 Net citizen, the inhabitants of the Web.<br />
10 Literally: execution of multiple tasks.<br />
Massimo Umberto Giordani: Professor of “Integration of<br />
Media” at the Politecnico of Turin