Product Description

This is a collection of published and original monologues by Peter Cochrane about the likely effects of new technology on business and society today and in the future. Together, they represent a penetrating and entertaining insight into cutting-edge technology. From the information superhighway to the Internet, office robots to virtual meetings, digital money to home banking, mobile communication to New Age nomads, technophobia to computer games, artificial life systems to sex, Cochrane tackles a wide range of subjects in an age when society is under siege from technology.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1065409 in Books
• Published on: 1999-01-28
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Nicholas Negroponte, Director, MIT Media Lab
This book illustrates how your life will change by being digital and, as such, is a primer about living in the future.

Douglas Adams, Author, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Peter Cochrane is one of our most far-sighted visionaries, and brings brilliant clarity and focus to our understanding of ourselves and our technologies, and of how profoundly each is transforming the other.

Brian Ferren, Executive Vice President, Walt Disney Imagineering
Peter Cochrane manages the tricky task of placing invention within the context of what it is to be US, and lays the groundwork for why we might care.

Customer Reviews

Some very interesting and sometimes quite radical thought
Seamless human-machine interfaces, extending the processing power of the human brain, extending the reach of an individual or group through endless communications networks with an absolute distributed architecture. Fascinating and powerful.

A very good read
Made me think differently about the world today and tomorrow, a very easy read indeed.