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Talking Back to the Machine

Computers and Human Aspiration

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  • © 1999

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  1. Peter J. Denning
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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. The Folly of Prediction

    • Gordon Bell
    Pages 1-13

  3. Life Without Bits

    • Carver Mead
    Pages 15-21

  4. Alternative Computing

    • Joel Birnbaum
    Pages 23-35

  5. Very Personal Computers

    • Pattie Maes
    Pages 37-44

  6. I, Software

    • Nathan Myhrvold
    Pages 45-53

  7. The Lost Art of Storytelling

    • Bran Ferren
    Pages 55-69

  8. The Digital Battlefield

    • William Perry
    Pages 71-80

  9. Entering the Age of Convenience

    • Fernando Flores
    Pages 81-88

  10. In the Belly of the Net

    • Vinton G. Cerf
    Pages 89-97

  11. When Computers Become Human

    • Brenda Laurel
    Pages 99-109

  12. A Half Century of Surprises

    • Maurice Wilkes
    Pages 111-116

  13. The Interactive Classroom

    • Elliot Soloway
    Pages 117-124

  14. Delivering Bandwidth Like Pizza

    • Reed Hundt
    Pages 125-132

  15. Weird Futures

    • Bruce Sterling
    Pages 133-141

  16. Teleportation, Time Travel, and Immortality

    • Raj Reddy
    Pages 143-153

  17. Pulling Diamonds from the Clay

    • Murray Gell-Mann
    Pages 155-165

  18. Closing Connections

    • James Burke
    Pages 167-173

  19. The Relics of ’97

    • David J. Kasik
    Pages 175-188

  20. Back Matter

    Pages 189-193
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From the editors of the wildly successful Beyond Calculation comes another exploration of the overwhelming impact of computers on our future. This time, the essays focus on the human impact of computer technology and culture: how computers will affect the ways we teach, learn, communicate, relate to each other, and live in the coming decades. The contributors, representing the best of many fields, include Secretary of Defense William Perry on how computers will affect warfare; Brian Ferrin on technology and storytelling; Patti Maes on intelligent agents; Nobel Laureate Murray Gell-Mann on the quality of information; Eliot Soloway on the impact of computers on education; and many more. Like Beyond Calculation, praised by the New York Times for its "astonishing intellectual reach," this sequel engages readers with some of the most compelling and important issues of our time.

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