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3.53 AVERAGE
3.53 AVERAGE
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Ho ricomprato questo libro dopo che non tornó mai indietro da un prestito. Ai tempi mi piacque parecchio adesso sarebbe datato, ma comunque pieno di spunti interessanti.
I want to say reading this book was extremely interesting. I am a current computer engineering masters student. I mention this because this book was an interesting look at what one person thought the future of technology to be in 1995. I find it interesting because that is the history of my field, predictions about my field. Some came true and others either did not or have not yet. Knowing my field, things are always changing so there is no true way to say whether some of the predictions will come true or not. Moving on, I really enjoyed this book, so why 4 stars and not 5. There is something to be said about the book being obsolete. It mentions this on the back cover. Additionally, I read this for pleasure, but do not think it would be a pleasure read for most people. I loved it, but it didn't suck me in, so 4 stars. Excellent job with the book though.
I was a volunteer for OLPC (one of his projects that came out of the MIT Media lab in 2007) and saw some of vision in that project and people like Walter Bender (who is mentioned in the book). He is a visionary person for things he worked on and saw. The book is from the 90s, when the internet was just starting to be popular. It shows vision in so many areas and is plain spoken as to make it accessible to average people. Even now you can see things he imagined unfolding like the Amazon Alexa, which enables people to 'do something' rather than work on a computer, keyboard and mouse, by using a hands-free technological agents.
This guy absolutely nails it. Written in 1995, and absolutely as relevant today as it was then. Everything he talks about has come to fruition. It's worth reading again every 5-10 years.
Would have been a good read 10 years ago. The author got some things right, but a lot of the predictions -- or at least a lot of the focus -- is wrong. This was written at the dawn of the Internet. CD-ROM's were still a big thing, and dvd's hadn't appeared yet.
As a study into what we thought the future would hold, it was interesting. But I kept wanting to tell the author to shut up about things like digital, connected toasters. It was a dumb idea, and no one ever wanted such a thing anyway.
As a study into what we thought the future would hold, it was interesting. But I kept wanting to tell the author to shut up about things like digital, connected toasters. It was a dumb idea, and no one ever wanted such a thing anyway.
Back in 1995 this book opened a lot of eyes has to what to digital revolution could for and to society.