Technology 2001: The Future of Computing and Communications

By Derek Leebaert

Book Overview

"A major contribution to the most important American debate of the 1990s--a 'must read.'"The computer pioneers and strategic planners writing in Technology 2001 discuss the collection of technologies that could well define the computing and communications environment that lies ahead. From inside the companies and the laboratories that have shaped today's information age, they describe the dramatic possibilities for individuals and institutions as the millennium approaches.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262121506
• ISBN13: 9780262121507
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

written just before the rise of the Web/WWW

Clarke's name on the cover is a trifle misleading. He just writes a brief introduction. His name is used because he is famous, and the title plays off his "2001: A Space Odyssey". The actual contents of the book are chapters by various technologists, speculating on the future, as written in 1990-1. Given that this is now 2006, you can read the book as a retrospective, for an assessment of how accurate they were, in just projecting forward 9 or so years. The most striking feature is how the concept of browsing is not that prominent. When the articles were written, the first browsers were still to be coded, and WWW or the "Web" had not yet emerged as axiomatic labels.