"We did lot of work on creating a completely digital environment - the entire field, the forest in the background is completely digital - and on digital doubles, digital replacements for humans, " she said.

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Ransom tells CNET she imagined the currently dormant project as a reflection of the "overstimulation" us humans encounter in a digital world.

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Paper: "Imaging live humans through smoke and flames using far-infrared digital holography, " M.

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Data, he pointed out, that humans generate in huge quantities as they go about their daily digital life.

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But in the absence of humans making those needs clear through making stuff with all of this available digital technology, battle away they will.

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At the D11: All Things Digital conference here, the tech elite buzzed about the promise of microcomputers that attach onto humans.

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By creating a digital version of Routh, animators were able to make him fly and do all kinds of things humans can't do.

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