Unfinished Revolution Human-Centered Computers and What They Can Do for Us

Name: Unfinished Revolution Human-Centered Computers and What They Can Do for Us
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ISBN: 9780066620671

ISBN-10: 0066620678

ISBN-13: 9780066620671

Edition: 2001

Authors: Michael L. Dertouzos

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This guide is a vision of the next information revolution that challenges everything you think you know about technology. The book outlines five technologies that will help shift the focus of information technology away from machines back to people.

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 1/9/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Why Change


Charting New Terrain


Rise of the Information Marketplace


Integrate Computers into Our Lives


Give Us a Gas Pedal and Steering Wheel


Reach All People



Let's Talk


Elusive Intelligence


Speech and Vision: Different Roles


Let's Talk


Show Me


A New Metaphor


Brain Chips



Do It for Me


The Ascent to Meaning: E-Forms


Meaning on the Web: Metadata


Bring Things under Control


Hundreds of Dumb Servants


Start the Ball Rolling


Automation and Society



Get Me What I Want


Organize or Search?


Discovering What Your Information Means


The Semantic Web Conspiracy


A New Information Model


Call to Action



Help Us Work Together


The Challenge


Messages and Packages


Collaboration Systems


Information Work


Privacy


More Social Consequences


Distance Education



Adapt to Me


A Growing Need


Pushing the OS Upward


Nomadic Software



Applying the New Forces


Health


Commerce


Disaster Control


Medicine in the Bush


Total Financial Services


Play


Sundials


Why These Five Forces?


Dovetailing People with the Forces



Oxygen


Putting It All Together


The Handy 21


The Enviro 21


The N21 Network


Speech


Automation


Individualized Information Access


Collaboration


Customization


The Oxygen Software System


Turning on a Dime



Finishing the Unfinished Revolution


Info Royalty


Global Reach


Monoculture and Overload


The Technology Fountain


No Machines beyond This Point


Greater Humanity?


Beyond the Information Revolution


Index