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- catalog abstract ""In early 1997, the Association for Computing Machinery celebrated its golden jubilee with a special conference and a book, Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing." "The success of Beyond Calculation led the ACM to produce this sequel, Talking Back to the Machine. This book captures the visions of the nineteen speakers at the ACM conference, most of whom were not represented in Beyond Calculation. Renowned experts all, they ponder how computers will influence the ways we function as individuals and within society in coming decades. They describe the many different ways in which our lives may be altered by information technology and how we ourselves might shape things to come."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12275651.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description ""In early 1997, the Association for Computing Machinery celebrated its golden jubilee with a special conference and a book, Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing." "The success of Beyond Calculation led the ACM to produce this sequel, Talking Back to the Machine. This book captures the visions of the nineteen speakers at the ACM conference, most of whom were not represented in Beyond Calculation. Renowned experts all, they ponder how computers will influence the ways we function as individuals and within society in coming decades. They describe the many different ways in which our lives may be altered by information technology and how we ourselves might shape things to come."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Then now / Peter J. Denning -- Opening connections / James Burke -- The folly of prediction / Gordon Bell -- Life without bits / Carver Mead -- Alternative computing / Joel Birnbaum -- Very personal computers / Pattie Maes -- I, software / Nathan Myhrvold -- The lost art of storytelling / Bran Ferren -- The digital battlefield / William Perry -- Entering the age of convenience / Fernando Flores -- In the belly of the Net / Vinton G. Cerf -- When computers become human / Brenda Laurel -- A half century of surprises / Maurice Wilkes -- The interactive classroom / Elliot Soloway -- Delivering bandwidth like pizza / Reed Hundt -- Weird futures / Bruce Sterling -- Teleportation, time travel, and immortality / Raj Reddy -- Pulling diamonds from the clay / Murray Gell-Mann -- Closing connections / James Burke -- The relics of '97 / David J. Kasik.".
- catalog extent "xxiv, 193 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0387984135 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Copernicus,".
- catalog subject "303.48/34 21".
- catalog subject "Computers and civilization.".
- catalog subject "Prediction theory.".
- catalog subject "QA76.9.C66 D46 1998".
- catalog tableOfContents "Then now / Peter J. Denning -- Opening connections / James Burke -- The folly of prediction / Gordon Bell -- Life without bits / Carver Mead -- Alternative computing / Joel Birnbaum -- Very personal computers / Pattie Maes -- I, software / Nathan Myhrvold -- The lost art of storytelling / Bran Ferren -- The digital battlefield / William Perry -- Entering the age of convenience / Fernando Flores -- In the belly of the Net / Vinton G. Cerf -- When computers become human / Brenda Laurel -- A half century of surprises / Maurice Wilkes -- The interactive classroom / Elliot Soloway -- Delivering bandwidth like pizza / Reed Hundt -- Weird futures / Bruce Sterling -- Teleportation, time travel, and immortality / Raj Reddy -- Pulling diamonds from the clay / Murray Gell-Mann -- Closing connections / James Burke -- The relics of '97 / David J. Kasik.".
- catalog title "Talking back to the machine : computers and human aspiration / Peter J. Denning, editor ; introductions by James Burke.".
- catalog type "text".