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The Invisible future : the seamless integration of technology into everyday life
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The Invisible future : the seamless integration of technology into everyday life

Author: Peter J Denning
Publisher: New York : McGraw-Hill, 2002.
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How will e-commerce and e-consumers interact in 2020? What will the relationship between man and machine, man and information, and information and machine mean for future generations? This wide-ranging collection assembles an elite group of 17 business and academic leaders to answer these and many other fascinating, strategically critical questions. The original essays they provide are as provocative and as powerful  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Invisible future.
New York : McGraw-Hill, 2002
(OCoLC)606573522
Online version:
Invisible future.
New York : McGraw-Hill, 2002
(OCoLC)607771568
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Peter J Denning
ISBN: 0071382240 9780071382243
OCLC Number: 46809389
Description: xiii, 348 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Science's endless golden age / Neil deGrasse Tyson --
A compass for computing's future / Rita Colwell --
Engineering the ocean / Marcia K. McNutt --
How biology became an information science / David Baltimore --
Flesh and machines / Rodney A. Brooks --
The surprising prowess of an automated music composer / Douglas Hofstadter --
Free market electrical network management / Shirley Ann Jackson --
The computer revolution hasn't happened yet / Alan Kay --
Don't count society out / John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid --
Less is more (more or less) / William Buxton --
Human-centered systems / Michael L. Dertouzos --
Fine living in virtual reality / Ray Kurzweil --
Life after Internet / Bob Metcalfe (as told to John Gehl) --
One is glad to be of service / Vint Cerf --
Ambient intelligence / Emile Aarts, Rick Harwig, Martin Schuurmans --
When our environments become really smart / Bruce Sterling --
Somatics in cyberspace / Richard Strozzi Heckler --
When IT becomes a profession / Peter J. Denning.
Responsibility: Peter J. Denning, editor.
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How will e-commerce and e-consumers interact in 2020? What will the relationship between man and machine, man and information, and information and machine mean for future generations? This wide-ranging collection assembles an elite group of 17 business and academic leaders to answer these and many other fascinating, strategically critical questions. The original essays they provide are as provocative and as powerful as the topics they discuss.

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