The Technology Revolution: The Not-for-dummies Guide to the Impact, Perils, And Promise of the Internet - Brossura

Okin, J. R.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0976385716 ISBN 13: 9780976385714

Casa editrice: Ironbound Pr, 2005

Riassunto

Prior to the commercialization and privatization of the Internet in the early 1990s, the subject of technology, not unlike its use, was something that engaged and concerned a very small number of individuals and a relatively small number of businesses. Today, we are inundated with technology, and technology-based businesses can be found across the globe. Computers are in our homes, businesses, schools, libraries, and corner coffee shops, and many of us carry these devices with us wherever we go or rely on smaller networked devices, like cellular phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs), to keep us connected and reachable at all times. The businesses that manufacture these devices or provide related services and support range in size from startups that employ a couple of people to multi-national corporations that employ tens of thousands of people. The proliferation of these businesses and the proliferation of the high-tech devices that we use and see around us every day are a sign of the times. We are living in the midst of a technology revolution, and for better or worse it has only just begun."The Technology Revolution" examines the impact, perils, and promise of the Internet and its technology. This book - the third and final book in The Internet Revololution Series - explains why the Internet is the revolution of our times. It describes the synergies created by computers, networking, and the Internet and explains how these synergies are leading to a newfound empowerment of the individual through a dramatic and unprecedented broadening in our access to information resources and our access to other individuals, groups, and communities. This book also explains the Internet's impact on the the privacy and security of our information, the role that Java has played in the evolution of the Internet, the creation and composition of the Digital Divide, how the Internet is responsible for building new types of community structures, and what caused the dot com boom and bust. It also includes a description of the author's personal experience as the Director of Software Engineering and Development at a New York City dot com called Linkshare.

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L'autore

J. R. Okin is a technology consultant who specializes in systems engineering. His clients have included AT&T Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Unix International, and the Open Software Foundation. During the dot com boom, Mr. Okin worked as the Director of Software Engineering and Development at a small Internet startup in New York City. He received a bachelor's degree from Vassar College and a master's degree from Cambridge University, both in English Literature.

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How do you name, describe, or characterize something that includes the potential to interconnect everyone on the planet? How do you evaluate or speculate on the significance of a system that can provide access to any and all types of information, particularly when that information can be located anywhere and stored in any number of different ways? Where do you start in studying the effects of a technology that gave form and meaning to the existence of virtual communities and instituted entirely new ways for people to communicate with one another and to share their ideas, feelings, and, ultimately, themselves? The answers all begin and end with the individual. No matter how you look at it, all of these questions, and many others just like them, lead back to you and me. They speak to the role the Internet has to play in relation to the daily life of the individual and, conversely, to the role the individual has to play in the daily workings of the Internet. TCP/IP brought the Internet onto our computers. But we brought the Internet into our lives and, in doing so, we shaped the Internet into what we see today.The Internet is a global computer network, interconnecting smaller, independent networks located throughout the world, the computers that compose those networks, and the people who own, operate, and use those computers. The Internet houses a vast quantity of information that is both broadly diverse in content and widely distributed in location. It carries countless messages every minute of every day. It brings together and engages people in such virtual constructs as interactive gaming environments and cyberspace recreations of meeting rooms, office buildings, and entire cityscapes.The Internet provides equally well for the commercial needs of corporations, the infrastructure needs of governments, the community needs of non-profit organizations, and the personal needs of individuals. It functions as a new realm for commerce, creating whole new business enterprises, changing the supply and distribution of commodities and services, and radically altering how many jobs are performed. It challenges our long-standing definitions of community and social interaction. It attracts and commands the attention of the young, the not-so-young, and people of every age in between.This book explores the Internet's impact, perils, and promise.

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• Editore: Ironbound Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0976385716
• ISBN 13: 9780976385714
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 288