Future Hype: The Myths of Technology Change
Seiten
2006
Berrett-Koehler (Verlag)
978-1-57675-370-5 (ISBN)
Berrett-Koehler (Verlag)
978-1-57675-370-5 (ISBN)
The general public has come to accept that technology is the greatest new growth frontier with an infinite amount of potential. Conventional thinking states that never before has such a golden era existed in which technology thrived and blossomed so fully. This work deals with this kind of hype.
Conventional wisdom says that technology is the greatest new growth frontier, coupling infinite potential with an ever-growing number of faster, more efficient, and more reliable products and instruments. According to this view, we live in an unprecedented golden era of technological expansion. Future Hype argues the opposite. Author Bob Seidensticker, who has an intimate understanding of technology on professional, theoretical, and academic levels, asserts that today's technological achievements are neither fast nor progressive. He explodes seven major myths of technology, including "Change is exponential," "Product cycle time is decreasing," and "Today's high-tech price reductions are unprecedented." Examining the history of tech hype, Seidensticker skillfully uncovers the inaccuracies and misinterpretations that characterize the popular view of technology, explaining how and why this view has been created, and offering specific strategies for measuring progress against what is actually known rather than against what its boosters have promised.
Conventional wisdom says that technology is the greatest new growth frontier, coupling infinite potential with an ever-growing number of faster, more efficient, and more reliable products and instruments. According to this view, we live in an unprecedented golden era of technological expansion. Future Hype argues the opposite. Author Bob Seidensticker, who has an intimate understanding of technology on professional, theoretical, and academic levels, asserts that today's technological achievements are neither fast nor progressive. He explodes seven major myths of technology, including "Change is exponential," "Product cycle time is decreasing," and "Today's high-tech price reductions are unprecedented." Examining the history of tech hype, Seidensticker skillfully uncovers the inaccuracies and misinterpretations that characterize the popular view of technology, explaining how and why this view has been created, and offering specific strategies for measuring progress against what is actually known rather than against what its boosters have promised.
Bob Seidensticker is a successful writer who graduated from MIT and then spent 25 years in the technology industry, including an 8-year stint at Microsoft as a project manager. He resigned from Microsoft in 1997 to write software as an independent developer and to pursue a writing career.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 16.4.2006 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | San Francisco |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 154 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 560 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften |
| Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Wirtschaftsinformatik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-57675-370-0 / 1576753700 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-57675-370-5 / 9781576753705 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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