Introducing the CTA concept

Introducing the VirtualMedia Concept

In this paper, we give a short overview of our current research on abstractions and concepts needed to achieve the long-term objective of realizing a genuine universal media server. Such a media server is supposed to support a wide range of non-trivial multimedia applications in an approximately optimal manner. Focusing on the handling of raw media data, we argue that the traditional data indep...

Introducing Geodesign: The Concept

Introducing the Concept of Legitimacy of Participation

Re-Introducing The Concept of Mind

[1] Imagine somebody whose enthusiasm for metaphysical musings is so matched by ineptitude that when his bank informs him that his account is overdrawn, he manages to convince himself that the modern banking system had created a new kind of Cosmic Substance: anti-cash, convertible into minus-pounds-sterling, nego-dollars, vac-euros, and so forth. Being a staunch ‘realist’ about all things, he d...

The Global City: introducing a Concept

EACH PHASE IN THE LONG history ofthe world economy raises specific questions about the particular conditions that make it possible. One ofthe key properties ofthe current phase is the ascendance of information technologies and the associated increase in the mobility and liquidity of capital. There have long been cross-border economic processes—flows of capital, labor, goods, raw materials, tour...