"What Will Be is an engaging and visionary guide to the future, filled with insights.... Whoever takes part in the coming Information Revolution -- and that's just about all of us -- needs to know What Will Be." --Bill Gates "What Will Be is a rich, detailed look at the future texture of our daily lives." --Esther Dyson Tech oracle Michael Dertouzos -- head of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and author of the bestselling Made in America -- offers a learned, accessible and fascinatingly detailed preview of new information technology and the ways it will remake our society, culture, economy and private lives in the next century. Speaking to every reader affected by technological change and written by a key architect of the very revolution it describes, What Will Be is the first detailed roadmap to the world of the technological future.
Michael Dertouzos Book order (chronological)
November 5, 1936 – August 27, 2001
The biggest-selling book in MIT history, Made in America is the definitive account of how America works. Based on interviews with hundreds of workers, this vivid portrait noly only identifies weaknesses and problems in management and productivity, but offers workable solutions for making American business work well again.