A mirror world is a

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of the real world in digital form. It attempts to map real-world structures in a geographically accurate way. Mirror worlds offer a software model of real human environments and their workings. It is very similar to the concept of a digital twin. The term in relation to digital media is coined by

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computer scientist

David Gelernter David Hillel Gelernter (born March 5, 1955) is an American computer scientist, artist, and writer. He is a professor of computer science at Yale University. Gelernter is known for contributions to parallel computation in the 1980s, and for book ...

. He first speaks of a hypothetical mirror world in 1991.

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