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Binding: Kindle Edition
Dewey Decimal Number: 658
Format: Kindle Book
Label: HarperCollins e-books
Manufacturer: HarperCollins e-books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: May 29, 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
Release Date: May 29, 2007
Sales Rank: 27617
Studio: HarperCollins e-books
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Rating:  - Now I know why the used CD only cost $0.99 :-)
I'm not impressed. The tone of the book is slightly pompous ... and the reader's style only makes this worse. The ideas were interesting, but nothing really revolutionary. I agree that with the authors ideas and his frustrations with Windows, and yes, speach recognition would be great.
Rating: - It is a great book
It is a great reading I learn a lot about the IT revolution
Rating: - Great Thoughts, Limited Reality, More to Do....
In some ways this is the gold-collared knowledge worker counterpart book to Ted Halstead and Michael Lind's The Radical Center: The Future of American Politics (citizen-centered). Those who liked The Cultural Creatives or IMAGINE: What America Could be in the 21st Century, can adopt this book as their user's guide for demanding change in information technology.
I recommend it because it is full of common sense, is the first really helpful "requirements document" for ... Read More
Rating: - Change the way you think!!!
Michael Dertouzos has an insightful vision of the future in his book The Unfinished Revolution. His focus is around Human-Centered computing and how it will allow user to "do more by doing less". He artfully illustrates the ways that computers should work. He admonishes that, in the current state of computing, we are the ones the serve our computers and not the other way around. Computers need to be changed so that they can understand us and not the other way around.
Even though this ... Read More
Rating:  - Explains how these computers will change our professional
Unfinished Revolution focuses on human-centered computers and how they can change our lives reveals a technology which adapts to people; a new concept in how designers are producing computers. Human-centered computing uses five key technologies which will expand human capabilities: Unfinished Revolution explains how these computers will change our professional specialties and personal lives alike.
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