108 Tips for Time Travellers: Your Essential Guide to New Technology and the Future - Softcover

Cochrane, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0752813668 ISBN 13: 9780752813660

Publisher: Orion Business (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 1999

Synopsis

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.

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Review

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. -- Douglas Adams, Author, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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. -- Brian Ferren, Executive Vice President, Walt Disney Imagineering

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

About the Author

Peter Cochrane has published widely in professional journals and the academic press, as well as newspapers and magazines. He is a promoter of science and technology, a regular speaker at conferences and public events, and appears on radio and TV worldwide.

Edition details

• Publisher: Orion Business (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0752813668
• ISBN 13: 9780752813660
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 250