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Your Life Will Be Different.
Keyboards, windows, and menus will be superseded by speech-understanding programs.
Your "bodynet" will let you make phone calls, check your e-mail, watch TV, and pay your bills as you walk down the street.
You will be healthier-and spend less money on doctors-as computer programs monitor your well-being and doctors care for you on-line.
Your clothes, entertainment, house, even your car, will be custom-tailored for you-and will cost less than they do today.
You'll be able to e-mail a caress-and more-as bodysuits, virtual reality, and video technology transform the nature of sex and romance.
""What Will Be is an engaging and visionary guide to the future, filled with insights. . . . Whoever takes part in the coming Infonnation Revolution—and that's just about all of us-needs to know What WiU Be. —B ILL GATES
"Who/ Will Be is a rich, detailed look at the future texture of our daily lives."—E ST HER DYSON
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I t 1. n
What
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ew '?eiftury?
I
Your Life Will Be Different.
Keyboards, windows, and menus will be superseded by speech-understanding programs.
Your "bodynet" will let you make phone calls, check your e-mail, watch TV, and pay your bills as you walk down the street.
You will be healthier-and spend less money on doctors-as computer programs monitor your well-being and doctors care for you on-line.
Your clothes, entertainment, house, even your car, will be custom-tailored for you-and will cost less than they do today.
You'll be able to e-mail a caress-and more-as bodysuits, virtual reality, and video technology transform the nature of sex and romance.
""What Will Be is an engaging and visionary guide to the future, filled with insights. . . . Whoever takes part in the coming Infonnation Revolution—and that's just about all of us-needs to know What WiU Be. —B ILL GATES
"Who/ Will Be is a rich, detailed look at the future texture of our daily lives."—E ST HER DYSON
The World Will Be Different.
An "Information Revolution" will transform our society and economy as thoroughly as did the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions.
Left to their owm devices, new technologies will widen the gap between rich and poor people and countries.
Nonlethal weapons will moke warfare less deadly while on-line terrorism w/ill grow more dangerous.
Employees at every level will have more decision-making power but will have to work smarter-and harder-to keep their jobs.
Groupwork, e-forms, automatization, and other "electronic bulldozers" will dramatically increase our productivity.
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For two decades, technological oracle, entrepreneur, and consultant Michael Dertouzos has led cutting-edge research on information technologies and has advised policymakers and CEOs on the future course and impact of these technologies. In 1980 Dertouzos predicted today's world of information with stunning accuracy. Now, he charts a unique and richly detailed map of the ways information technology will alter every facet of our public and private lives, from a few years to a century hence.
Dertouzos heads the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science—home of the World Wide Web and birthplace of many of the high-tech products and processes that surround us today. In What Will Be, he offers the ultimate insider's preview of the inventions that will usher in a Third Revolution to rival the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions. And in deft and detailed analysis, Dertouzos reveals the changes we will experience in everyday life, in the pursuit of pleasure, health, learning, office work, commerce, manufacturing, and governance. Debunking the starry-eyed view of new technology promoted by many commentators—while taking the Luddites firmly to task—Dertouzos unveils a crisp picture of the new century's global information marketplace and shows how it will affect one-half of the world's industrial economies. He uncovers what's wrong with technology, explains how we can right the wrongs, and identifies the key trade-offs tomorrow will bring. Dertouzos even highlights what aspects of our society and
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ourselves will never be altered by technology and offers an inspiring blueprint for how new tech could bridge the centuries-old gaps between reason and the spirit
Learned, accessible, clear-sighted, and fascinating. What WaB Be is written for every reader affected by technological change— both the digital sophisticate and those still struggling to understand e-mail. Essential and riveting, detailed and incisive, this is the first thorough roadmap to the future.
MICHAEL DERTOUZOS has headed MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science since 1974. With several start-up companies and technology patents to his credit, Dertouzos advises the leaders of Fortune 500 companies and of the U.S. and European governments on the future directions of information technology and its impact.
Cover design: L,iura Beers Vissza