The chance to explore this strange new two dimensional world is the main event.
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These are exciting times for those of us who still enjoy the 3-dimensional world.
Being unable to engage in the simple art of listening effectively leaves you lost in your own one-dimensional world.
Simply creating AI that can navigate a three-dimensional world without getting stuck has been the undoing of many a game.
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The two-dimensional world of the Web is rapidly going 3-D with immersive applications such as Google Earth and World of Warcraft.
But this ignores the whole field of the two-dimensional world of choice.
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His conjecture, made in 1904, was that in this four-dimensional world, all closed three-dimensional surfaces that are simply connected could be transformed to look like a three-dimensional sphere.
The two-dimensional world of the Web is rapidly going 3-D with immersive applications such as Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) Earth and World of Warcraft.
And just as Matisse's paeans to the tension between the three-dimensional world and the flat canvas have been dismissed as "decorative" because of their glorious color and patterning, Veronese's lush figure groups have been similarly labeled, for similar reasons.
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So now for something completely different: advanced technology for the last sixty years has meant computing power and its application but the interface with much of the 3 dimensional world is still extremely feeble because mechanical technology has been mostly overlooked since the mindset has been that mechanical has all been done plus it was never and will never be flashy.
Kay wants to take computing forward with his next great invention, an operating system that puts the user in a three-dimensional graphic world with scores of other users, all computing collaboratively and communicating through audio and visual messaging.
Why would the administration present a static one-dimensional assessment to Congress and the world about something this critical?
But so is verifying anyone's identity in a world where even three-dimensional objects like Stradivarius violins can easily be "printed", let alone copied en masse.
Also, world trade is no longer two dimensional or necessarily reciprocal.
The world at the molecular level is a three-dimensional one with its own busy, complex environment.
Two dimensional computing hints at the possibility of true right-brained expression (outside of the art world).
It recommended using geometric lines of latitude and longitude to convey a three-dimensional Earth on a two-dimensional surface, and it included the co-ordinates of over 8, 000 locations in the ancient world.
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