When Things Start to Think
Published on 11. January 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
247 pages
978-0-340-72871-0 (ISBN)
Description
The digital revolution has promised us a future of boundless opportunity at the speed of light, and a limitless vista of entertainment and education. The reality, as most of us know, is something less than that.
Neil Gershenfeld believes that new technology should work as well as the old technology that it is intended to replace. In his remarkable book, he takes us on a tour of the future where people - not technology - prevail. Describing how technology will soon have advanced so far that wearable computers that think for us - touching a door handle will unlock a door, picking up a telephone will download your email, a handshake will exchange business cards - Neil Gershenfeld paints a wonderful picture of a society where humans and machines effor
tlessly communicate.
Neil Gershenfeld believes that new technology should work as well as the old technology that it is intended to replace. In his remarkable book, he takes us on a tour of the future where people - not technology - prevail. Describing how technology will soon have advanced so far that wearable computers that think for us - touching a door handle will unlock a door, picking up a telephone will download your email, a handshake will exchange business cards - Neil Gershenfeld paints a wonderful picture of a society where humans and machines effor
tlessly communicate.
Reviews / Votes
Grounded, provocative and far-reaching. A book you won t want to put down - John Seely BrownFascinating theories about the sort of gadgets we ll all be taking for granted in the next twenty years - Mirror
The extremely readable tale of the quests to make the line between humans and computers invisible - Times Higher Educational Supplement
There are few people as qualified as he to discuss the practical applications of thinking things - Daily Telegraph
More details
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hodder & Stoughton
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-A)
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 130 mm
Width: 198 mm
Weight
178 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-340-72871-0 (9780340728710)
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Person
Neil Gershenfeld is a director at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, working on the Things That Think Consortium. He regularly advises companies of forthcoming technology and has written for The New York Times and Time Magazine.