Peter J. Denning, Robert M. Metcalfe

Beyond Calculation (eBook, PDF)

The Next Fifty Years of Computing

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The scientific, social and economic impact of computers is only beginning to be felt. These sixteen invited essays on the future of computing take on a dazzling variety of topics, featuring opinions from Gordon Bell, Paul Abraham, Sherry Turkle, David Gelernter, Donald Norman, Edsger W. Dijkstra, and many other notables. This brilliantly eclectic collection, commissioned to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the first electronic computer, will fascinate anybody with an interest in computers and where they're taking us.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer US
• Seitenzahl: 313
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781461206859
• Artikelnr.: 44184467

Inhaltsangabe

I The Coming Revolution.- 1. The Revolution Yet to Happen.- 2. When They're Everywhere.- 3. Beyond Limits.- 4. The Tide, Not the Waves.- 5. How to Think About Trends.- 6. The Coming Age of Calm Technology.- II Computers and Human Identity.- 7. Growing Up in the Culture of Simulation.- 8. Why It's Good That Computers Don't Work Like the Brain.- 9. The Logic of Dreams.- 10. End-Running Human Intelligence.- 11. A World Without Work.- 12. The Design of Interaction.- III Business and Innovation.- 13. The Stumbling Titan.- 14. The Leaders of the Future.- 15. Information Warfare.- 16. Virtual Feudalism.- 17. Sharing Our Planet.- 18. There and Not There.- 19. The Dynamics of Innovation.- 20. How We Will Learn.- Contributors.