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ZIN Product Number: 10009230
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 0062514792
Release Date: Jan 4, 2000
| |  | | | In Brief
"Dertouzos previews the future of technology and its impact. . . . Among his prognostications: multinational media conglomerates will control accessto information; there will be an increase in online terrorism; and speech recognition programs will make keyboards, Windows, and menus obsolete." (Quill Quire) Index.
| | | | From The Publisher
Michael 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:
all the music, film and text ever produced will be available on-demand in our own homesyour "bodynet" will let you make phone calls, check email and pay bills as you walk down the streetadvances in telecommunication will radically alter the role of face-to-face contact in our livesglobal disparities in infrastructure will widen the gap between rich and poorsurgical mini-robots and online care will change the practice of medicine as we know it.
Detailed, accessible and visionary, What Will Be is essential for Information Age revolutionaries and technological neophytes alike.
Author Biography: Tech oracle Michael Dertouzos, head of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and author of the bestselling Made in America, offers a learned, accessible, and fascinatingly detailed preview of new information technology and the ways it will remake our society, culture, economy, and private lives in the next century. Speaking to every reader affected by technological change and written by a key architect of the very revolution it describes, What Will Be is the first thorough roadmap to the world of the technological future.
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In this fascinating, essential guidebook to the Third Revolution, tech oracle Michael Dertouzos--head of MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and author of the bestselling Made in America--charts a uniquely knowledgeable and richly detailed map of the changes which the new technology will wreak in every aspect of readers' lives. 288 pp. 12-city author tour. Print ads. Online promo. 125,000 print.
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| | | |  | | | | Foreword | | | Preface | | | I | Shaping the Future | 1 | | 1 | Vision | 3 | | 2 | The Revolution Unfolds | 25 | | 3 | Where Person Meets Machine | 55 | | 4 | New Tools | 81 | | II | How Your Life Will Change | 111 | | 5 | Daily Life | 113 | | 6 | Pleasure | 139 | | 7 | Health | 165 | | 8 | Learning | 175 | | 9 | Business and Organizations | 191 | | 10 | Government | 215 | | III | Reuniting Technology and Humanity | 227 | | 11 | The Value of Information | 229 | | 12 | Electronic Bulldozers | 251 | | 13 | Electronic Proximity | 277 | | 14 | Ancient Humans | 295 | | Appendix | The Five Pillars of the Information Age | 317 | | Index | 329 |
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