The computer pioneers and strategic planners writing in Technology 2001 discuss the collection of technologies that could well define the computing and communications environment that lies ahead. From inside the companies and the laboratories that have shaped today's information age, they describe the dramatic possibilities for individuals and institutions as the millennium approaches.Derek Leebaert is Professor of Management at Georgetown University's Graduate School of Business.
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"Denos Gazis of IBM contributes a wonderful no-nonsense chapter called "Brief Time, Long March." He charts the course our recent technological past has taken, then assays our current condition for strengths and weaknesses. It is a fact-filled tour of the state of the industry.Other chapters stand out for the same thoroughness.... The writers know their topics and communicate their knowledge with skill... Technology 2001 prepares us for the future by assessing our present condition with depth and accuracy, and by raising the questions that should stay poised on our lips as we hurtle forward." Rich Ayre , PC Magazine
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written just before the rise of the Web/WWW,
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This review is from: Technology 2001: The Future of Computing and Communications (Paperback)
Clarke's name on the cover is a trifle misleading. He just writes a brief introduction. His name is used because he is famous, and the title plays off his "2001: A Space Odyssey". The actual contents of the book are chapters by various technologists, speculating on the future, as written in 1990-1. Given that this is now 2006, you can read the book as a retrospective, for an assessment of how accurate they were, in just projecting forward 9 or so years.
The most striking feature is how the concept of browsing is not that prominent. When the articles were written, the first browsers were still to be coded, and WWW or the "Web" had not yet emerged as axiomatic labels.
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United States, New York, Alan Kay, Apple Macintosh, Bell System, Open School, Personal Memex, Cray Research, Harvard Business Review, National Academy Press, Integrated Services Digital Network, Middle Ages, Nobel Prize, Rolling Ridge, Texas Instruments, Vannevar Bush New!
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Sometime around the end of this century, computer technology will celebrate its golden anniversary. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Alan Kay, Apple Macintosh, Bell System, Open School, Personal Memex, Cray Research, Harvard Business Review, National Academy Press, Integrated Services Digital Network, Middle Ages, Nobel Prize, Rolling Ridge, Texas Instruments, Vannevar Bush New!
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- Conquest of Civilization by J. H. Breasted on page 205, and page 239
- Space Odyssey: an Anthology of Great Science Fiction Stories by Robert Silverberg in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- International Business by Donald A., Jr. Ball in Front Matter
- Research Directions in Object-Oriented Programming (Computer Systems Series) by Bruce Shriver on page 337
- Orality and Literacy (New Accents) by Walter J. Ong on page 239
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