What Will Be - (How the New World of Information Will Change Our Lives) by Michael L Dertouzos (Paperback)

About the Book

In this national bestseller, the head of MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science offers clearheaded insights and predictions based on his 25 years of experience at the forefront of computer technology".An engaging and visionary guide to the future".--Bill Gates.

Book Synopsis

""What Will Be" is an engaging and visionary guide to the future, filled with insights.... Whoever takes part in the coming Information Revolution -- and that's just about all of us -- needs to know What Will Be."
--Bill Gates

" "What Will Be" is a rich, detailed look at the future texture of our daily lives."
--Esther Dyson

Tech oracle Michael Dertouzos -- head of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and author of the bestselling "Made in America" -- offers a learned, accessible and fascinatingly detailed preview of new information technology and the ways it will remake our society, culture, economy and private lives in the next century. Speaking to every reader affected by technological change and written by a key architect of the very revolution it describes, "What Will Be" is the first detailed roadmap to the world of the technological future.

From the Back Cover

Michael Dertouzos has been an insightful commentator and an active participant in the creation of the Information Age.Now, in What Will Be, he offers a thought-provoking and entertaining vision of the world of the next decade -- and of the next century. Dertouzos examines the impact that the following new technologies and challenges will have on our lives as the Information Revolution progresses:

• all the music, film and text ever produced will be available on-demand in our own homes
• your "bodynet" will let you make phone calls, check email and pay bills as you walk down the street
• advances in telecommunication will radically alter the role of face-to-face contact in our lives
• global disparities in infrastructure will widen the gap between rich and poor
• surgical mini-robots and online care will change the practice of medicine as we know it.

Detailed, accessible and visionary, What Will Be  is essential for Information Age revolutionaries and technological neophytes alike.