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The Future of Technology (Economist)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 658.514
EAN: 9781861979711
Format: Illustrated
ISBN: 1861979711
Label: Bloomberg Press
Manufacturer: Bloomberg Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 358
Publication Date: September 01, 2005
Publisher: Bloomberg Press
Studio: Bloomberg Press
Sales Rank: 1052026

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From the industrial revolution to the railway age, through the era of electrification, the advent of mass production and finally to the information age, the same pattern keeps repeating itself. An exciting, vibrant phase of innovation and financial speculation is followed by a crash, after which begins a longer, more stately period during which the technology is actually deployed properly. This book examines the post-technology era, drawing on the best writing on technology that has appeared in The Economist * Part one looks at topics such as the "greying" (maturing) of IT, the growing importance of security, the rise of outsourcing and the challenge of complexity, all of which have more to do with implementation than innovation. * Part two looks at the shift from corporate computing towards consumer technology whereby new technologies now appear first in consumer gadgets such as mobile phones. Topics covered will include the emergence of the mobile phone as the digital "Swiss Army" knife; the rise of digital cameras, which now outsell film-based ones; the growing size and importance of the games industry and its ever-closer links with other more traditional parts of the entertainment industry; and the social impact of technologies such as text messaging, Wi-Fi and camera phones. * Part three considers which technology will lead the next great phase of technological disruption and focuses biotechnology, energy technology and nanotechnology.

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- "no longer looking for HAL...."

In this volume edited by Tom Standage, the material is carefully organized and presented within three Parts. As "the revolutionary ideas of a few years ago have now become conventional wisdom," the focus in Part 1 is on the implications of widespread adoption of technology. "The growing ubiquity and sophistication of consumer-electronics devices is the topic of the second part of the book." That is to say, the emergence of "digital lifestyle" within a "digital home." Once information technology has percolated into everything (e.g. wireless sunglasses that double as head phones to radio-tagged cereal boxes), "what new technology will lead the next great phase of transformation, disruption, and creativity?" Then in Part 3, the focus is on various new "contenders" such as biotechnology, ... Read More

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- conceptual gropings just preceding Web 2.0
The book is a compendium of articles from the Economist magazine, taken from the years 2001-5. Readers of the magazine may well recognise several or even most of the writings. They are arranged in several themes. What has been omitted is the dates in which each article originally appeared. Perhaps this should have been added.

Anyhow, the articles have the Economist's typical insightful musings; here on technology trends. During what is now universally acknowledged as the aftermath of the dot-com era. Most of the discussion revolves around the Web.

If you read the articles now in 2006 or later, what is striking is that they are not quite in what some are calling the Web 2.0 era. Web Services get a mention in the book. But little about developments in 2005 and 2006. Not ... Read More

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