Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 313 pages
• Published by: Springer
• Edition: 1st Edition September 25, 1998
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0387985883
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0387985886
• Book Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Weighs: 1.2 pounds

From Library Journal
A prodigious effort encompassing twenty lengthy essays, this work attempts to illuminate the future by asking computer professionals and academics how computing and computers will change over the next 50 years. The varied responses come under such titles as "Growing Up in the Culture of Simulation" and "Why It's Good That Computers Don't Work Like the Brain." A typical passage reads: "[The Internet] has grown from an idea motivated by the need to interconnect heterogeneous packet-communication networks to our present-day ubiquitous communication web joining people, businesses, [and] institutions, through various forms of electronic equipment in a common framework." The essays are of course speculative, almost in a free-for-all way, and the conclusions, once unearthed from layers of scholarly expatiation, are something less than astonishing. Marginally recommended for academic libraries.?Robert C. Ballou, Atlanta
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Stephen Manes, The New York Times March 11, 1997
Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computingoffers a collection of 24 essays of amazing intellectual reach. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Reader Reviews
This books serves as a collection of essays from various experts in the field of computing. These essays speculate on the future of computing over the next fifty years. While the material was quite interesting; most of the essays were quite dry. A couple of the essays seemed like a chore to read.