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A related area with important implications for neurosurgery is virtual reality.
Building on simulation technology, virtual reality will allow surgeons to rehearse procedures, including with surgical robots, in a digital environment.
Virtual reality will also enhance surgical training, by providing students with a wider range of experience and enabling quantification of their performance.
To be sure, virtual reality remains a relatively young technology.
Given that realistic neurosurgical simulations, which must account for a large number of variables and potential outcomes, are particularly difficult to develop, virtual reality is not yet being used widely in the field.
Add virtual reality to the equation and the future of neurosurgery takes shape – a future in which the discipline is elevated to new levels of excellence.
After years of virtual non-existence, civil society, therefore cannot be restored from above, or by legal fiat.
Even more important, the information revolution is creating virtual communities and networks that cut across national borders, and transnational corporations and non-governmental actors - terrorists included - will play larger roles.
Of course, we must respond to both the weakening economy and financial instability in a virtual state of emergency.
Over the last quarter-century, rapid technology-driven globalization – characterized by the physical and virtual integration of the global economy, including the opening of world markets – has contributed to the fastest increase in incomes and population in history.
Hezbollah had been in a virtual cold war with Hosni Mubarak’s Egypt since January 2009, when Nasrallah had effectively accused Mubarak’s government of collusion in Israel’s intervention in Gaza, and had called for the “Egyptian people to take to the streets in their millions.”
The comprehensive curfews imposed on almost all large Palestinian towns in recent months effectively confine people to their homes, thus bringing the economy to a virtual standstill.
According to one school of thought, the future is all about ad hoc alliances – virtual and flexible networks that take advantage of the world’s interconnectedness to forge mutually beneficial relationships.
“The meaning of our numbers” also applies in virtual space.
They could conduct virtual experiments, work simultaneously to update data in a spreadsheet or document, and create a shared final presentation.
It has delivered self-driving (though still not flying) cars, as well as virtual personal assistants and even autonomous weapons.
In Myanmar, Buddhist racism is at the root of a virtual civil war in the state of Rakhine and is fueling a humanitarian crisis in which hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya have fled their country by land and sea.
For some young Muslims, the paramount sub-culture is virtual, and it operates on the fringes of Muslim communities, whether in Europe or in the Islamic world.
But for all this generosity, an authoritarian government rules Ethiopia with virtual impunity.
The Instability of InequalityNEW YORK – This year has witnessed a global wave of social and political turmoil and instability, with masses of people pouring into the real and virtual streets: the Arab Spring; riots in London;Israel’s middle-class protests against high housing prices and an inflationary squeeze on living standards; protesting Chilean students; the destruction in Germany of the expensive cars of “fat cats”;India’s movement against corruption; mounting unhappiness with corruption and inequality in China; and now the “Occupy Wall Street” movement in New York and across the United States.
Climate negotiations have been in virtual limbo ever since the catastrophic and humiliating Copenhagen summit in 2009, where vertiginous expectations collided with hard political reality.
During my premiership, my government sought to investigate RosUkrEnergo – to discover who precisely its owners are, how it gained a virtual monopoly on the import of Central Asian gas, and where its profits go.
Will the world of cognitive surplus make it easier for us to be environmentally responsible, guided also by the inclusion of externalities in the prices of physical goods, so that we end up “consuming” fewer physical things and spend more on virtual value?
Just as we are driven to spread our physical DNA, so apparently do we have an urge to spread our virtual identities, so that we cannot be erased.
Instead of physical descendants, we are offering our own virtual selves to posterity.
In what is now called the Fourth Industrial Revolution, technologies that are coming of age – including robotics, nanotechnology, virtual reality, 3D printing, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and advanced biology – will converge.
Not only has design technology become more accessible, but an extensive virtual infrastructure exists that enables small and medium-size companies to outsource design, manufacturing, and logistics.
The PROMESA Board was supposed to chart a path to recovery; its plan makes a recovery a virtual impossibility.
And, in a world in which many citizens spend an increasing proportion of their time in virtual space, de facto condominialism is already happening.
Unlike Pax Americana, which has been imposed by US military force, this will be a peace among virtual equals.
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