i in the Sky (eBook, ePUB)

Visions of the Information Future
Redaktion: Scammell, Alison

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

i in the Sky is a collection of essays by more than 40 experts, including such leading writers as Charles Handy, Don Tapscott, and Kevin Warwick, giving their personal vision of the future of information. Information here is given its widest meaning and includes such subjects as the Internet, electronic commerce, cybernetics, robotics, artificial intelligence, and even computers as fashion accessories. Information as phenomenon pervades all areas of life, and its evolution has consequences for everyone. Many of the essays have as their central themes the future of computer intelligence; library and information services; interactive Internet marketing; networked learning in higher education; the linking of technology enabling remote and online communication to the deconstruction of the modern corporation; artificial intelligence; scholarly communication; smart houses; intelligent appliances; etc.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136597336
• Artikelnr.: 38274242

Autorenporträt

Alison Scammell

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Darwin Among the Books
Richard Wakeford; Chapter 2 The Man With X-Ray Arms ?EUR" And Other Skin-Ripping Yarns
K. Warwick; Chapter 3 As I See It (The Future of Information)
Charles Handy; Chapter 4 Maintaining a Balance?
Christopher Davis; Chapter 5 No Limits
David Raitt; Chapter 6 Information Everywhere
Erik Davis; Chapter 7 Information?EUR?s Golden Age
David Skyrme; Chapter 8 The Future of Information Access
Colin Steele; Chapter 9 Marketing in the Digital Economy
Don Tapscott; Chapter 10 Assessing the Impact of Information in the Digital Age
Dan Wagner; Chapter 11 Entering the Mainstream
Stephen E. Arnold; Chapter 12 A Cup Half-Full
Ian Brackenbury; Chapter 13 Back to the Atelier
Frank Colson; Chapter 14 Why We Need a Science of Information
Keith Devlin; Chapter 15 Net Effect on the 21st Century
Lyric Hughes; Chapter 16 Yesterday?EUR?s Tomorrows
Peter Bishop; Chapter 17 Why the Knowledge Revolution Needs a Cultural Revolution
Pita Enriquez Harris; Chapter 18 The Evolution of Media Librarians
Barbara P. Semonche; Chapter 19 Information Ontologies for Digital World
Jonathan Raper; Chapter 20 The Information Specialist as Fulcrum
Gary Marchionini; Chapter 21 Experiential Documents and the Technologies of Remembrance
Clifford Lynch; Chapter 22 Waking the Giant ?EUR" the Internet and Information Revolution in Africa
Mike Chivanga; Chapter 23 Toward a Sustainable Science of Information
Amanda Spink; Chapter 24 Networked Learning in Higher Education
Philippa Levy; Chapter 25 Beyond the Interface
Carol C. Kuhlthau; Chapter 26 The Three Properties of Information
Gerry McGovern; Chapter 27 Helping Small Business Encounter Information
Sheila Webber; Chapter 28 Information
Communication
and the E-Generation
Jane Klobas; Chapter 29 Work
Information Technology
and Sustainability
Jack M. Nilles; Chapter 30 How Will Future Information Technology Affect Me? ?EUR" A Personal User Perspective
Karl M. Wiig; Chapter 31 The Future of Scholarly Skywriting
Stevan Harnad; Chapter 32 From the Satisfaction of Basic Needs to Information Literate Societies
Ina Fourie; Chapter 33 The Tail Wags the Dog
Dave Nicholas
Tom Dobrowolski; Chapter 34 Marchers in Time
Barbara Quint; Chapter 35 Chinese Web
Kevin McQueen; Chapter 36 The Revolution Will Be Customised
Jack Schofield; Chapter 37 Information Wars ?EUR" F is for Fake
Robin Hunt; Chapter 38 Musings On the Future of Information
C. David Seuss; Chapter 39 Creating Creators
John S. Driscoll; Chapter 40 Design for Life
Kevin Carey; Chapter 41 Human Error
Lise Leroux;