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Title: What Will Be : How the New World of Information Will Change Our Lives by Michael L. Dertouzos, Bill Gates ISBN: 0-06-251540-3 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 11 March, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.42 (19 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A book about OUR future.
Comment: In the early 1980s, Dr. Dertouzos boldly predicted a place where people could freely exchange information and services using a personal computer. Today this place is widely known as the Internet. Dr. Dertouzos, head of the MIT Lab for Computer Science, uses this book to share more of his ideas and predictions of "What Will Be" in the future.
His book, without getting too technical, explains how society will be changed by a new revolution he calls the Information Marketplace. His examples of new networked technologies that will simplify our lives opened my eyes and got me excited about what lies ahead in the future. His idea of a 'Bodynet,' a personal mobile network which enables you to make phone calls, watch the news, and mingle with strangers as you stroll down the block is realistic. But other ideas, such as a database that keeps track of your clean clothes in your closet to help you decide what to wear seems farfetched and even useless.
Overall I was satisfied with the content of Dr. Dertouzos' book. It was clear and concise and provided some humorous examples of how the new technologies will be used. I would recommend this book to anyone that has an interest in how technology will shape society's future.
Rating: 3
Summary: What can be not what will be
Comment: What will be, by Michael Dertouzos, is indeed an interesting read despite his lack of support for his thesis. By the nature of the title and subtitle, the reader is teased with a possible glimpse into our technological future. Perhaps the book should have been titled, What can be. How the new world of information can change our lives. The largest stumbling block toward accepting the title and premise is Deertouzos' careful avoidance of information technology venture capitalism, marketing, and legal environments that determine what actually is designed, manufactured and marketed. If an author infers that technology will actually happen, then they are obligated to explain when and how momentous longstanding roadblocks will be removed. Of course these issues are discussed but in a highly speculative and vague manner. On a positive note, the section What is Wrong with Technology is very clear and makes the book worth reading. I recommend this book. Despite content sprinkled with lofty assertions, Dertouszos prepares the reader for technological issues which will continue to revolutionize our world.
Rating: 4
Summary: Everyone needs to know What Will Be!
Comment: I didn't know anything about Michael Dertouzos prior to discovering and reading this book. It's a presentation of a man's visions of our world's digital future. However, he is not just any man. Dertouzos has been director of the MIT Computer Science Lab for several decades, and has been a leading party in many discoveries and innovations that took place in MIT, or with collaboration to it. He has for many years been a most active participant in the evolution of computers, networks and the Internet itself, thus being the most suitable one to try to envision a picture of our networked world as it will be in the near future.
Dertouzos presents quite interesting aspects about how our future will be shaped by all networked electronic equipment, be they computers, TVs, or mobile devices. He shows how more and more uses of the Net will gradually evolve, uses that most of us have not even imagined possible. He calls the Internet a global "Information Marketplace", since he shows how it will grow to include all human activities, not necessarily linked to computers as we know them today.
The only hitch I can find in Dertouzos's reasoning, is the time he is talking about. While he says that most of the innovations he talks about will start showing up and rapidly evolve in the next 10 to 20 years, I believe that this time is short. My opinion is, it will take quite some more time for all of Dertouzos's dreams and aspirations to come to life and full use.
I wouldn't like to reveal anything more about what's mentioned in this book. I'm not a good summary-writer, so I wouldn't want to spoil your experience of learning What Will Be!
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Title: Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte ISBN: 0679762906 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 03 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Unfinished Revolution : How to Make Technology Work for Us--Instead of the Other Way Around by Michael L. Dertouzos ISBN: 0066620686 Publisher: HarperBusiness Pub. Date: 08 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Introductory Concepts in Information Science by Melanie J. Norton ISBN: 1573870870 Publisher: Information Today, Inc. Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.50 |
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Title: Easy Marc: A Simplified Guide to Creating Catalog Records for Library Automation Systems (Easy March, 4th Ed) by Scott Piepenburg ISBN: 0965212629 Publisher: Hi Willow Research & Pub Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Ala Filing Rules by American Library Association, Rtsd Filing Committee ISBN: 083893255X Publisher: Amer Library Assn Editions Pub. Date: 01 January, 1980 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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