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Tips for Time Travelers
by P. Cochrane
ISBN: 0070120706
ISBN-13: 9780070120709
Format: Hardcover
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Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published date: 1998
Size: 5.75 x 9 inches
Weight: 1.05 pounds
Pages: 225
Publisher's Notes
Futuristic technologies (which frighten most people) are a delight to Peter Cochrane, an internatinal speaker with Business Week's Executive Programs, and head of Research at British Telecommunications. Human cloning, identification chips implanted under the skin, digitally enhanced brains, and machines that can think--these are things which he not only believes will occur in the near future; Cochrane actually embraces these scary, science-fiction notions as natural extensions of human development. While he remains an unbashed optimist about the future of technology, he is fully cognizant about the jarring nature of rapid technology, he is fully cognizant about the jarring nature of rapid technological change, both to individuals and to societies. As little as 30 years ago, he points out, an individual would meet and communicate with only 3,000 people in their lifetime. Now, we can do so in a matter of weeks or days.
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N. Y.: McGraw-Hill, 1998. This book has the previous owner's name written inside and is missing the DJ. "This is a book for anyone interested in or concerned about the future, especially those ultrabusy people (time travelers) traversing the planet as atoms or bits to create wealth and transform society and life." Don't let this interesting book be sold to another customer, order it today!. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by Book Lovers Warehouse (United States)
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Tips for Time Travelers : Visionary Insights into New Technology, Life and the Future on the Edge of Technology
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1999. Peter Cochrane, the head of the cutting-edge research labs at British Telecommunications, is a leading visionary of the digital age. He takes us on a rollicking tour of the technological advances just ahead. This series of monologues-at once provocative, brilliant and funny-give a tantalizing glimpse of a future where the distinction between humans and computers, between carbon and silicon, is rapidly converging." This book has 225 pages.. ISBN: 0-07-012070-6. First U. S. Printing. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING TECHNOLOGY CIVILIZATION GENERAL SOCIAL ASPECTS. ( more information) Offered by Glued To The Tube Books (United States)
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