Future Hype: The Myths of Technology Change by Seidensticker, Bob

Future Hype: The Myths of Technology Change (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781576753705)

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Future Hype: The Myths of Technology Change by Seidensticker, Bob

Future Hype: The Myths of Technology Change

$16.95
Future Hype: The Myths of Technology Change by Seidensticker, Bob

Future Hype: The Myths of Technology Change

$16.95
Format: Paperback
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Everyone knows that today's rate of technological change is unprecedented. With technological breakthroughs from the Internet to cell phones to digital music and pictures, everyone knows that the social impact of technology has never been as profound.

But everyone is wrong. In fact, the pace of change isn't notably faster than in times past and most "revolutionary" technologies are just refinements of past breakthroughs. Using dozens of entertaining examples, high-tech industry veteran Bob Seidensticker debunks nine technology myths, proving that:

The rate of change is not exponential (myth #1),
Important new products don't arrive any faster than they ever have (myth #3),
The Internet doesn't really change everything (myth #8), and much more.

Future Hype exposes the hidden costs of technology and will help both consumers and businesses take a shrewder position when the next 'essential' innovation is trotted out.

Author: Bob Seidensticker
ISBN-10: 1576753700
ISBN-13: 9781576753705
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Language: English
Published: 04/09/2006
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.06w x 0.73d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 05/01/2006 pg. 117
Foreword 07/01/2006 pg. 53
Scitech Book News 09/01/2006 pg. 118
Choice 11/01/2006 pg. 500
Choice 06/01/2007 pg. 1656
By Bob Seidensticker
By Bob Seidensticker
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I learned how to program in high school in the mid-1970s on a computer designed in 1962. It had four cubes of core memory each the size of a coffee cup (holding roughly 64K bytes) and two 10-megabyte disk drives each bigger than a car tire. Teletype terminals in the school connected to the computer with a 110 bit-per-second telephone modem. From that point to the present, I've taken a ringside seat and watched technology change with fascination.

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