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Beyond Calculation

The Next Fifty Years of Computing

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  • © 1997

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Authors:
  1. Peter J. Denning
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  2. Robert M. Metcalfe
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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. The Coming Revolution

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-3
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    2. The Revolution Yet to Happen

      • Gordon Bell, James N. Gray
      Pages 5-32

    3. When They’re Everywhere

      • VInton G. Cerf
      Pages 33-42

    4. Beyond Limits

      • Bob Frankston
      Pages 43-57

    5. The Tide, Not the Waves

      • Edsger W. Dijkstra
      Pages 59-64

    6. How to Think About Trends

      • R. W. Hamming
      Pages 65-74

    7. The Coming Age of Calm Technology

      • Mark Weiser, John Seely Brown
      Pages 75-85

  3. Computers and Human Identity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-92
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    2. Growing Up in the Culture of Simulation

      • Sherry Turkle
      Pages 93-104

    3. Why It’s Good That Computers Don’t Work Like the Brain

      • Donald A. Norman
      Pages 105-116

    4. The Logic of Dreams

      • David Gelernter
      Pages 117-126

    5. End-Running Human Intelligence

      • Franz L. Alt
      Pages 127-134

    6. A World Without Work

      • Paul W. Abrahams
      Pages 135-147

    7. The Design of Interaction

      • Terry Winograd
      Pages 149-161

  4. Business and Innovation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-167
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    2. The Stumbling Titan

      • Bob Evans
      Pages 169-174

    3. The Leaders of the Future

      • Fernando Flores
      Pages 175-192

    4. Information Warfare

      • Larry Druffel
      Pages 193-212

    5. Virtual Feudalism

      • Abbe Mowshowitz
      Pages 213-231
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About this book

In March 1997, the Association for Computing Machinery will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the electronic computer. To understand what an extraordinary fifty years the computer has had, you need only look around you--probably no farther than your desk. Computers are everywhere: in our cars, our homes, our supermarkets, at the phone company office, and at your local hospital. But as the contributors to this volume make clear, the scientific, social and economic impact of computers is only beginning to be felt. These sixteen invited essays on the future of computing take on a dazzling variety of topics, with opinions from such experts as Gordon Bell, Sherry Turkle, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Paul Abraham, Donald Norman, Franz Alt, and David Gelernter. This brilliantly eclectic collection, commissioned to celebrate a major milestone in an ongoing technological revolution, will fascinate anybody with an interest in computers and where they're taking us.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Beyond Calculation

  • Book Subtitle: The Next Fifty Years of Computing

  • Authors: Peter J. Denning, Robert M. Metcalfe

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0685-9

  • Publisher: Copernicus New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-387-98588-6

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-0685-9

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 313

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Computer Science, general

  • Industry Sectors: IT & Software, Telecommunications

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