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Tips for Time Travellers: Visionary Insights into New Technology, Life and the Future by One of the World's Leading Technology Prophets [Hardcover]

Peter Cochrane (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 175 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education (1 Nov 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0070120706
  • ISBN-13: 978-0070120709
  • Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,502,049 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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After Tips for Time Travelers, readers will never think about technology the same way again. Peter Cockrane, research head at industry pioneer British Telecom, offers an uncensored and sometimes disturbing commentary on how today's dramatic advances in technology will alter the way we live and think. No longer science fiction, recent news-making breakthroughs -- such as human cloning. identification chips implanted under the skin, digitally-enhanced brains and machines that can think -- are becoming a reality that will irrevocably reshape our culture and our lives. The technology is inevitable. Cochrane argues: the only question is whether or not we will embrace it or fear it.

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This book reflects the curiosity, enthusiasm and vision that Peter Cochrane brings to BT's Laboratories, where his task is to question the world we now and take for granted. It also brings his challenging and wide-ranging (yet realistically down-to-earth) views to a wider audience. Sir Iain Vallance, Chairman, BT

Most futurists are voyeurs. By contrast, Peter Cochrane looks ahead with all the authority of a digital activist, one whose anarchy one year is establishment the next. The collected stories in Tips for Time Travelers illustrate 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

The future causes most of us to become intensely short-sighted. From afar it swims in a crazy, unimaginable heat-haze. As we gradually arrive, it all seems perfectly normal and the past recedes in a blur. Somewhere along the line we miss some vital perspective. 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 - Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

Despite the relentless march of technology over the centuries, peoples basic needs have changed very little . Peter Cochran's great gift is not only that he can see 100 years into the future (when we'll all be dead and could care less), but five minutes into the future as well. This, my friends is where the action is. Tips for Time Travelers 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.

Bran Ferren Executive Vice President Walt Disney Imagineering

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108 bits (no chapter is more than a couple of pages) of smart, quirky commentary on the e-world we live in. From practical observations (3the software industry1s race to build the world1s heaviest airplane is causing overall performance to get worse...2} to the philosophical (3soon we will have more things communicating than people...2), with a lot of interesting speculation about the future: 3At some point...it is almost certain that technology will enable us to store human minds in silicon form.2 A lively mind at work here, in highly readable form. An informative and thought-provoking book, not just for the wired.
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I loved "Tips For Time Travelers" because it makes perfect sense. Cochrane is pragmatic. Although he sees what we all see, he sees more and is compelled to do something about it. He has unquestionably proved that a desire to do more, to create, to make something better and the willingness to act on the desires can pay off.

His vision for the future is based on the logical and practical adoption of technology. The fact that this will mean chips in our head and fiber in our veins, is a good thing. Our body is only a shell and we have been enhancing it externally since the beginning of time. Technology will make it feasable to go under the skin.

As Emerson said "All things being taken, it is not instruction but provocation that I would rather take from anothers soul" and Cochrane manages to be both provocative and practical as he leads us into the future.

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It's hard to disagree with the likes of Nicholas Negroponte, Douglas Adams and Bran Ferren when they rave about Peter Cochrane's book, but what they can't say is what a great book it is for the regular guy on the street. Cochrane writes in such an easy style, his book is more like a conversation with a person you'd sit next to on an airplane, or one of the other dads at daycare picking up their kids -- and he makes the future of technology seem real and lets you see how it will actually change your life. It's a great book and I really like the very short chapters. Does he actually have a camera in his glass-walled office called "Little Brother" so his team can watch what their boss is up to? Does he actually carry only digital pictures of his family on his laptop -- no paper-printed pix in his wallet? Does he really have as much trouble upgrading his software as the rest of us? Read the book to find out.
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