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, featuring opinions from Gordon Bell, Paul Abraham, Sherry Turkle, David Gelernter, Donald Norman, Edsger W. Dijkstra, and many other notables. This brilliantly eclectic collection, commissioned to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the first electronic computer, will fascinate anybody with an interest in computers and where they're taking us.
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.
