You Are Here
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You Are Here
The continuing expansion of the visible domain, increasingly including and giving force (and reality) to the creations of our imagination and to formerly inaccessible places and dimensions of our unfolding universe, has produced a radical shift of the shared concepts of time and space. Suddenly, the statement « you are here » has a very different meaning. Thanks to the proliferation and increas...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: IEEE Distributed Systems Online
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1541-4922
DOI: 10.1109/mdso.2007.33