The Invisible Future: The Seamless Integration of Technology Into Everyday Life
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (650 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0071382240 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Thought-provoking perspectives from IT cognoscenti Anthony This is a collection of eighteen essays that came out of a 2001 ACM conference. The subjects centered around the future of computers in our lives, but some discussed robotics, bioscience, astrophysics and oceanography. Several focused on ubiquity or "ambient intelligence" as one author called it. Written by some leading minds in science, information technology and others, the . Highly Recommended! The gates to the human genome have fallen, nano-technology is redefining life itself, and Moore's law continues to work its magic. But is there a dark side to the technology juggernaut? The answer provided by the contributors to this cutting-edge tome is a definite, "maybe." If technology cannot be made more human-centric - designed to respond to human wants and needs - its pr. "A "Must-Read" for Futurists" according to John Gehl. As co-editor of NewsScan Daily, the Internet publication focused on the social aspects of information technology, I consider "The Invisible Future" a "Must-Read" because it offers so many thought-provoking essays for people interested in computers, in the future, or the future of computers. Peter Denning has brilliantly edited the book to focus on what 's really important abou
This title consists of essays by 11 visionaries, derived from the March 2001 Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) conference. The book offers strategic direction on the future of our world saturated with computers and networks.. An elite group of industry leaders from an assortment of technology-related fields gather together here to speculate about the implications of the technology for business, entertainment, science, engineering and education after 2020, when computers will be everywhere and almost completely invisible, These futurists focus on exploring how information technology will be reshaping our world. What will business and society be like when technology has completely saturated the events of everyday life? The relationship between man and machine, man and information, and information and machine is going to have radical consequences (both positive and negative) on future generations
As in any such collection, the individual essays are uneven, but this doesn't prevent the book from being great fun to dip into. And in an analogy with the printing press, whose real effects weren't evident until nearly 200 years after its invention, Kay may have said it all in just the title of the collection's shortest contribution: "The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet." Editors of Scientific American. Three high points are the musings of John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid, Douglas Hofstadter and Alan Kay. Brown and Duguid, in a particularly well written piece, analyze Bill Joy's famous warning (put forth in the April 2000 issue of Wired) that the potential of new technologies for self-replication poses a profound challenge. Based on a think tank organized by the Association for Computing Machinery, the book rounds up the usua