Future Hype: The Myths of Technology Change
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781282299122 (1282299123)
Publish date: January 1st 2006
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
This is a fascinating yet flawed book. Robert Seidensticker's argument is that people have long overestimated the speed of technological change, which he demonstrates by surveying the decades of grandiose predictions that have fallen flat. From them he derives a series of "high-tech myths" that serv...