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Wireless Foresight deals with the development of the wireless communications industry and technology during the coming ten to fifteen years. Telecommunications is a global business of enormous proportions and is one of the largest industries in the world. Written in a highly accessible and simple to read manner, this book is based around four scenarios of the wireless world in 2015. The focus is on the industry (i.e. infrastructure and terminal vendors, operators, and service developers and providers) as well as on new players. Discusses the long-term developments described in the four scenarios and also short term issues, for example the challenges facing industry. Uncovers important areas for technological research and discusses the critical challenges facing industry, for example; the high cost for infrastructure, the slow spectrum release, the stampeding system complexity, radiation, battery capacity, and the threat of a disruptive market change facing the telecommunications industry. Offers a global approach whereby developments from around the world are described. Employs the method of building full-scale scenarios as opposed to just identifying trends and making predictions. Wireless Foresight is an invaluable and provocative read for top and middle management, strategists, business developers, technology managers, and entrepreneurs in the telecom, datacom and infocom industries alike. It is also of great interest to financial analysts and academics.

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A collection of thirty-five provocative essays from the acclaimed editor of Analog magazine discusses such topics as scientific orthodoxy, the flaws of our education systems, the power of humor, and the hard choices between jobs and conversation. Reprint.

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The publisher of the Gilder Technology Report predicts a revolution of high-speed, high-powered networks--not limited to the capacity of a PC--that will enable users to transmit information at an exponentially higher rate. Reprint. 85,000 first printing.

An Australian scientist and critic defines the 'Spike' as the current period of unprecidented scientific and technological development and traces its life-altering impact on human culture. Reprint. (view table of contents)

The publisher of the Gilder Technology Report predicts a revolution of high-speed, high-powered networks--not limited to the capacity of a PC--that will enable users to transmit information at an exponentially higher rate. Tour. (view table of contents)

An optimistic vision of humankind's future explores how innovations in biotechnology, computing, robotics, medicine, energy development, and space technology will usher in a new era of unprecedented opportunities. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: How will autonomous agents, emergent systems, and chaos theory change the way we live and work in the twenty-first century? As today's manufacturing and production systems grow increasingly complex, tomorrow's science of complexity will produce paradoxically simple solutions, argue technology experts Patricia Moody and Richard Morley in this astonishing vision of the year 2020...read more

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This volume collects the research of today's scientists to explore the possibilities of the science of tomorrow. Among the issues covered are how decoding DNA will allow us to alter and reshape our genetic heritage, and how quantum physicists will harness the energy of the Universe.

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Product Description: Peter Cochrane, the head of the cutting edge research labs at British Telecommunications, is a leading visionary of the digital age. He takes us on a rollicking tour of the technological advances just ahead. This series of monologues - at once provocative, brilliant and funny - give a tantalizing glimpse of a future where the distinction between humans and computers, between carbon and silicon, is rapidly converging...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: What is the real impact of technology on our cultural and political lives? Are the proponents of megatechnology and the global economy correct to assume that there will always be newer technological solutions to all the world's problems? Fifty visionary environmentalists, scientists, scholars, and social critics grapple with these questions and expose the links between the character of megatechnology and the social and ecological crises of our time...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Examines the possibilities of future technological advances, such as high-speed railroads in the U.S., the scientific ability to purge our air of pollution, heavy industry existing in space, and gene therapy greatly extending human life expectancy. 30,000 first printing. Tour. (view table of contents)

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