Futurehype: The Myths of Technology Change (Easyread Large Edition)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781442963115 (1442963115)
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
Pages no: 434
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...