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Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing (Hardcover)

by James Burke (Foreword), Peter J. Denning (Author), Robert M. Metcalfe (Author) "Try to imagine all the new kinds of computers that will arrive in the next generation or two ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 313 pages
  • Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. (Mar 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0387949321
  • ISBN-13: 978-0387949321
  • Product Dimensions: 26.4 x 16.5 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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In March 1997, the Association for Computing Machinery celebrated the 50th anniversary of the electronic computer. To understand what an extraordinary 50 years the computer has had, one need only look around - probably no farther than one's desk. Computers are everywhere: in our cars, our homes, our supermarkets, at the phone company office, and at the local hospital - but, as the contributors to this volume make clear, the scientific, social and economic impact of computers is only beginning to be felt. These 16 invited essays on the future of computing take on a great variety of topics, with opinions from such experts as Gordon Bell, Sherry Turkle, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Paul Abraham, Donald Norman, Franz Alt and David Gelernter.
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4.0 out of 5 stars The future history of computing looks great., 14 Jun 1997
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This book is a compendium of opinions on where computing is going based on where it has been. Dijkstra takes another jab at all the people who discount his ideas on provable programs and he sounds rather bitter. Bob Evans give an insider's view of IBM and the mistakes that it made. As with any collection from many authors, there will be some things you like and some you don't. I found it to be a very fast read. Grove's "Only the Paranoid Survive" is a more entertaining look at the recent history of computing. "In the Company of Giants" has more value-added ego if you like that sort of thing (I don't).
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