What Will Be: How the World of Information Will Change Our Lives by Michael L. Dertouzos

Description

“”What Will Be” is an engaging and visionary guide to the future, filled with insights…. Whoever takes part in the coming Information Revolution — and that's just about all of us — needs to know What Will Be.”
–Bill Gates

” “What Will Be” is a rich, detailed look at the future texture of our daily lives.”
–Esther Dyson

Tech oracle Michael Dertouzos — head of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and author of the bestselling “Made in America” — offers a learned, accessible and fascinatingly detailed preview of new information technology and the ways it will remake our society, culture, economy and private lives in the next century. Speaking to every reader affected by technological change and written by a key architect of the very revolution it describes, “What Will Be” is the first detailed roadmap to the world of the technological future.

Editorial Review

Many have predicted what emerging technology will mean for society. Michael Dertouzos, an Internet pioneer and Head of MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science, has been among the few who've been pretty much right so far. Now he reaches into the coming century to paint a compelling, rationally developed picture of what's ahead. Dertouzos' fluid freedom from the pollyanna-ism or paranoia that afflict so many of his contemporaries brings to his visions the ring of both conviction and plausibility–and excitement as well. His crystal explanations and fascinating examples are irresistible. The result is a book as enjoyable as it is important.