Who gives a gigabyte?
Subtitle: a survival guide for the technologically perplexed
By: Gary Stix and Miriam Lacob.
Contributors: Lacob, Miriam.
Publisher: John Wiley
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Technological innovations.; Technological literacy.
Description: Which new technologies will change our lives the most in the years ahead? Introducing today's brave new world of gene therapy, quantum computation, designer drugs, and recyclable cars, Who Gives a Gigabyte? surveys the exciting range of technological wonders reshaping our world - as well as those soon to come - and offers simple, engaging explanations of what they are and how they work.

Scientific American senior editor Gary Stix and journalist Miriam Lacob combine their skills to take readers on a tour of the most important recent developments in genetics, medicine, cybernetics, telecommunications, robotics, micromachines, environmental cleanup, and more.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-294) and index.