What Will Be: How the New World of Information Will Change Our LivesMichael Dertouzos has been an insightful commentator and an active participant in the creation of the Information Age.Now, in What Will Be, he offers a thought-provoking and entertaining vision of the world of the next decade -- and of the next century. Dertouzos examines the impact that the following new technologies and challenges will have on our lives as the Information Revolution progresses:
Detailed, accessible and visionary, What Will Be is essential for Information Age revolutionaries and technological neophytes alike. |
Contents
The Revolution Unfolds | 25 |
No More Buses | 31 |
War of the Spiders | 43 |
The Five Pillars of the Information Age | 51 |
Bodynets and Smart Rooms | 64 |
Electronic Noses and Haptic Interfaces | 73 |
New Tools | 81 |
Good Ole and New EMail | 89 |
War and Peace | 218 |
Reuniting Technology and Humanity | 227 |
Electronic Bulldozers | 251 |
Ease of Use Revisited | 262 |
Whats the Horsepower of Your Text Editor? | 268 |
Electronic Proximity | 277 |
Crime and the Law | 286 |
Big Brother | 293 |
How Your Life Will Change III | 111 |
Pleasure | 139 |
Creations and Flashbacks | 148 |
Virtual Neighborhoods | 157 |
Health | 165 |
Automated Specialists | 171 |
Homework | 178 |
Business and Organizations | 191 |
Services Services Services | 198 |
PanOrganizational Changes | 204 |
Accountability Egalitarianism Responsibility | 210 |
The Forces of the Cave | 300 |
The Age of Unification | 307 |
Unification | 316 |
Agenda to Help the Poor | 323 |
Techie Agenda | 332 |
Humie Agenda | 338 |
The Five Pillars of the Information Age | 349 |
Faster Than Smoke Signals | 355 |
Index | 361 |
Other editions - View all
What Will Be: How the New World of Information Will Change Our Lives Michael L. Dertouzos No preview available - 2009 |
What Will Be: How the World of Information Will Change Our Lives Michael L. Dertouzos No preview available - 1997 |
What Will Be: How the New World of Information Will Change Our Lives Michael L. Dertouzos No preview available - 1998 |
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