Beyond calculation : the next fifty years of computing / Peter J. Denning, Robert M. Metcalfe, [editors] ; foreword by James Burke.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Copernicus, 1998.Description: xviii, 313p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780387985886:
- 0387985883
- 004.0905
- .D348 1998
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Originally published: 1997.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
[Part I The coming revolution] The revolution yet to happen / Gordon Bell & James N. Gray -- When they're everywhere / Vinton G. Serf -- 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 & John Seely Brown
[Part II Computers and human identity] 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 -- End-running human intelligence / Franz L. Alt -- A world without work / Paul W. Abrahams -- The design of interaction / Terry Winograd
[Part III Business and innovation] 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 & Oliver Strimpel -- The dynamics of innovation / Dennis Tsichritzis -- How we will learn / Peter J. Denning
Twenty-four experts tell about the future of computers in business, in science and in everyday life.
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