What Will Be: How the New World of Information Will Change Our Lives (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780062515407)

Michael Dertouzos has been an insightful commentator and an active participant in the creation of the Information Age.Now, in What Will Be, he offers a thought-provoking and entertaining vision of the world of the next decade -- and of the next century. Dertouzos examines the impact that the following new technologies and challenges will have on our lives as the Information Revolution progresses:

• all the music, film and text ever produced will be available on-demand in our own homes
• your "bodynet" will let you make phone calls, check email and pay bills as you walk down the street
• advances in telecommunication will radically alter the role of face-to-face contact in our lives
• global disparities in infrastructure will widen the gap between rich and poor
• surgical mini-robots and online care will change the practice of medicine as we know it.

Detailed, accessible and visionary, What Will Be&nbsp is essential for Information Age revolutionaries and technological neophytes alike.

Author: Michael L. Dertouzos
ISBN-10: 0062515403
ISBN-13: 9780062515407
Publisher: HarperOne
Language: English
Published: 02/17/1998
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.16w x 1.02d