Description |
xviii, 313 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents |
End-running human intelligence / Franz L. Alt -- A world without work / Paul W. Abrahams -- The design of interaction / Terry Winograd -- The stumbling titan / Bob O. Evans -- The leaders of the future / Fernando Flores -- Information warfare / Larry Druffel -- Virtual feudalism / Abbe Mowshowitz -- Sharing our planet / Donald D. Chamberlin -- There and not there / William J. Mitchell and Oliver Strimpel -- The dynamics of innovation / Dennis Tsichritzis -- How we will learn / Peter J. Denning |
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The revolution yet to happen / Gordon Bell and James N. Gray -- When they're everywhere / Vinton G. Cerf -- Beyond limits / Bob Frankston -- The tide, not the waves / Edsger W. Dijkstra -- How to think about trends / Richard W. Hamming -- The coming age of calm technology / Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown -- Growing up in the culture of simulation / Sherry Turkle -- Why it's good that computers don't work like the brain / Donald Norman -- The logic of dreams / David Gelernter |
Summary |
Jacket: "Twenty-four of the world's leading experts tell us about the future of computers in business, in science, and in our lives ... Paul W. Abrahams -- Franz L. Alt -- Gordon Bell -- John Seely Brown -- James Burke -- Vinton G. Cerf -- Donald D. Chamberlin -- Peter J. Denning -- Edsger W. Dijkstra -- Larry Druffel -- Bob O. Evans -- Fernando Flores -- Bob Frankston -- David Gelernter -- James N. Gray -- Richard W. Hamming -- William J. Mitchell -- Abbe Mowshowitz -- Donald A. Norman -- Oliver Strimpel -- Dennis Tsichritzis -- Sherry Turkle -- Mark Weiser -- Terry Winograd." |
Analysis |
Computers |
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Electronic data processing |
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Prognose |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Computers.
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Electronic data processing.
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Author |
Burke, James, 1936- writer of foreword
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Metcalfe, Robert M., 1946- author
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LC no. |
96037790 |
ISBN |
0387949321 |
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0387985883 |
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9780387949321 |
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9780387985886 |
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