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Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Part I

Chapter 1

A Home for the Web

The Information Marketplace

Infrastructure Is the Key

Global Fever

Questions

Chapter 2

Birth of the Computer Community

No More Buses

The Commercial Siren Song

Arpanet, Internet, and the Web

War of the Spiders

Battle of the Pipes

The Five Pillars of the Information Age

Chapter 3

Audio, Video, Bodyo

Talking to Your Computer

Bodynets and Smart Rooms

Virtual and Augmented Reality

Electronic Noses and Haptic Interfaces

The Ultimate Human-Machine Interface

Chapter 4

The New Software

Automatization Tools

Good Ole (and New) E-Mail

Groupwork and Telework

Pipe Managers

Hyper-Organizers and Finders

Computer Security Schemes

Information Infrastructures

Part II

Chapter 5

Music Match

House Doctors and Data Sockets

Auto-Cook

Your Own Custom Publisher

Informed Automobiles

Discovering Insurmountable Needs

Mass Individualization

Togetherness

Financial Planning

A Virtual Compassion Corps

Your Day

Chapter 6

From Your Easy Chair

Forbidden Pleasures

Creations and Flashbacks

Art

Virtual Neighborhoods

Games and Adventures

Chapter 7

Guardian Angel

The Medical Information Marketplace

Automated Specialists

Robotic and Augmented-Reality Surgery

Chapter 8

Experiences and Prospects

Homework

Simulators

Design and Creativity

Automated Tutors and Masters

The Changes Ahead

Chapter 9

Group Power

Business Changes

Electronic Commerce

Making Things

Services, Services, Services

Noble Quests

Pan-Organizational Changes

Knowledge Fever

Accountability, Egalitarianism, Responsibility

Industrial Performance

Chapter 10

Internal Changes

War and Peace

Privacy Fears

Part III

Chapter 11

End Game

The Myth of Cheap Copies

The Economic Value of Information

Info-Junk and Intermediaries

The Rich-Poor Gap

Employment or Unemployment

The Reach of Information

Chapter 12

Plows, Engines, Networks

What's Wrong with Technology

Ease of Use Revisited

What's the Horsepower of Your Text Editor?

Greater Productivity

Toward a Work-Free Society

Chapter 13

A Thousand Times Closer

Humans and Machines

Rise of the Urban Villager

Nations or Networks

A Universal Culture?

Crime and the Law

No Passports, No Checkpoints

Big Brother

Chapter 14

Overload

Virtual Laughter and Tele-friendship

The Forces of the Cave

What Will Be

The Age of Unification

Unification

Afterword: What to Do

Agenda for Individuals in the Industrialized World

Agenda to Help the Poor

Business Agenda

Techie Agenda

Humie Agenda

Government Agenda

Appendix: The Five Pillars of the Information Age

1. Numbers, Numbers Everywhere

2. Two-Fingered Monsters

3. Computer Labor

4. Faster Than Smoke Signals

5. Computer Networks

Searchable Terms

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Praise

Other Books by Michael L. Dertouzos

Copyright

About the Publisher