Talking Back to the Machine
Subtitle: Computers and Human Aspiration
By: edited by Peter J. Denning
Publisher: Springer New York
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9781461274339; 9781461221487
Subjects: Mathematics
Description: From the editors of the wildly successful Beyond Calculation comes another exploration of the overwhelming impact of computers on our future. This time, the essays focus on the human impact of computer technology and culture: how computers will affect the ways we teach, learn, communicate, relate to each other, and live in the coming decades. The contributors, representing the best of many fields, include Secretary of Defense William Perry on how computers will affect warfare; Brian Ferrin on technology and storytelling; Patti Maes on intelligent agents; Nobel Laureate Murray Gell-Mann on the quality of information; Eliot Soloway on the impact of computers on education; and many more. Like Beyond Calculation, praised by the New York Times for its "astonishing intellectual reach," this sequel engages readers with some of the most compelling and important issues of our time.
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Table of contents: title: Foreword (Robert Metcalfe); title: Preface (Peter Denning); title: Introduction (James Burke); title: The Folly of Prediction (Gordon Bell); title: Non-Electronic Computing (Joel Birnbaum); title: The Future of the Internet (Vin Cerf); title: The Transformation of Stories (Brian Ferrin); title: Information Technology and Business (Fernando Flores); title: The Quality of Information (Murray Gell-Mann); title: Telecommunications in the Future (Reed Hundt); title: The Cultural Impact of Information Technology (Laurel); title: Intelligent Agents and Software Technology (Patti Maes); title: The Future of Semiconductors (Mead); title: The Future of Software (With Some Speculations about Windows 47) (Nathan Myhrvold); title: Information Technology and the Face of War (William Perry); title: How Computing Research Will Pay Off (Raj Reddy); title: Computers and Early Education (Eliot Soloway); title: The Dark Side of Information Technology (Bruce Sterling); title: Learning to Predict the Future from the Past (Wilkes); title: Insert: A Tour of the Exhibits (Dave Kasik).