| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 156 pages) : color illustrations |
| Contents |
INTRODUCTION -- The Disappearance of Telecommunications -- FOCUS--Reflections: Economics of the Knowledge Age -- Chapter 1. The Knowledge Age -- FOCUS--Organization and Business Reengineering -- Chapter 2. Defeating Space and Time -- FOCUS--Communication Infrastructures -- Chapter 3. Living in a World of "Intelligent Objects" -- FOCUS--Technologies for Intelligence -- Chapter 4. Landlubbers -- FOCUS--Beyond the Physical -- Chapter 5. On Stage -- FOCUS--From Voices, Images, and Words--into Numbers -- Chapter 6. My Next Door Neighbor Lives 10,000 Doors Away -- FOCUS--Access Infrastructures -- Chapter 7. Who Said That? -- FOCUS--Ownership and Security Technologies -- CHAPTER. 8. A Vision of Tomorrow: "A Million e-Businesses, Interacting with a Billion People, through a Trillion Interconnected Intelligent Devices ..." -- FOCUS--Electronic Commerce -- CHAPTER. 9. Do-It-Yourself Services -- FOCUS--Technologies for Usability -- CHAPTER. 10. What a Beautiful Voice -- FOCUS--Voice Synthesis and Recognition -- CHAPTER. 11. Who Pays? -- FOCUS--"Make It So" -- CHAPTER. 12. It Doesn't End Here .. |
| Summary |
The authors contend that seamless adaption of new technology is leading to a society where technology will "disappear" from perception. A new Knowledge Age will accept technology as another component of everyday life |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and online resource |
| Subject |
Telecommunication -- Popular works
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Information society -- Popular works
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Telematics -- Popular works
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Information society
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Telecommunication
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Telematics
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Telecommunicatietechniek.
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Telecommunicatie.
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Internet.
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Telefonie.
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Mobiele telefonie.
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| Genre/Form |
Popular works
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Harrow, Jeffrey R., 1949- author.
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Weihmayer, Robert, 1953- author.
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| ISBN |
9780470546567 |
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0470546565 |
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