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  2. Digital obsolescence - Wikipedia

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    Digital obsolescence has a prominent effect on the preservation of video game history, since many older games and hardware were regarded by players as ephemeral products, due to the continuous process of computer hardware upgrading and home console generation cycles. Such cycles are often the result of both systemic and technical obsolescence.

  3. Mind uploading - Wikipedia

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    An analogy to mind uploading is to copy the information state of a computer program from the memory of the computer on which it is executing to another computer and then continue its execution on the second computer. The second computer may perhaps have different hardware architecture, but it emulates the hardware of the first computer.

  4. Psychological effects of Internet use - Wikipedia

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    Commentators have argued that the Sitaraman study shows that when humans get accustomed to a faster flow of information on the Internet, they become more impatient and have less tolerance for delays. [5] [6] Computer scientist Ramesh Sitaraman has asserted that Internet users are impatient and are likely to get more impatient with time. [7]

  5. Mediated communication - Wikipedia

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    The dissociation and disinhibition associated with mediated communication can cause people who are being deceived to have trouble interpreting the reactions of the deceiver since information sent through media instead of face-to-face can lose or have change the nonverbal cues within it, and, with that, signs of deception. [13]

  6. Computer fools humans, passes 'Turing Test' for first time

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    For the first time ever, a computer has successfully convinced people into thinking it's an actual human in the iconic "Turing Test." Computer science pioneer Alan Turing created the test in 1950 ...

  7. Humans did not evolve from either of the living species of chimpanzees (common chimpanzees and bonobos) or any other living species of apes. [174] Humans and chimpanzees did, however, evolve from a common ancestor. [175] [176] This most recent common ancestor of living humans and chimpanzees would have lived between 5 and 8 million years ago. [177]

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  9. Mediumship - Wikipedia

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    The medium mentally "hears" (clairaudience), "sees" (clairvoyance), and/or feels (clairsentience) messages from spirits. Directly or with the help of a spirit guide, the medium passes the information on to the message's recipient(s). When a medium is doing a "reading" for a particular person, that person is known as the "sitter".