Research Catalog

Title

The unfinished revolution : human-centered computers and what they can do for us / Michael L. Dertouzos.

Author

Dertouzos, Michael L.

Publication

New York : HarperCollins, c2001.

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Details

Description

xvi, 224 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

• "By exploiting these five emerging technologies in combination - in our professional specialties and in our personal lives - we will see a vast increase in our productivity and a marked change in the ways we live and work. Human-centered technologies will make computers simpler, more natural, and more useful to us. The collective benefits of human-centered machines will give ordinary people capabilities that go beyond those enjoyed today by the most privileged. Human-centered systems will give us the gas pedal, brakes, and steering wheel of the Information Age."
• "Human-centered computing goes well beyond the empty promises of "user-friendly" interfaces. At its foundation are five key technologies that will dramatically amplify our human capabilities: natural interaction, automation, individualized information access, collaboration, and customization. Human-centered systems will understand us when we speak to them; will do much of our routine brainwork for us; will get us the information we want, when and where we want it; will help us work with other people across space and time; and will adapt on their own to our individual needs and desires."
• "The Unfinished Revolution is nothing less than an inspired manifesto for the future of computing. Dertouzos's vision will change how businesses, organizations, and governments work with each other, and how individuals interact. It represents the dawn of a new era in information technology."
• "This is a book for everyone, professionals and nonspecialists, who yearn for machines that live up to the grand promise of the Information Revolution - fulfilling real human needs with greater simplicity - that still lingers unfulfilled. The Unfinished Revolution is for those who want to enhance their computer productivity and fun, in short, for every person who wants to do more by doing less."--Jacket.

Subject

• Attitude to Computers
• Human-computer interaction
• User interfaces (Computer systems)
• User-Computer Interface

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

1. Why change -- 2. Let's talk -- 3. Do it for me -- 4. Get me what I want -- 5. Help us work together -- 6. Adapt to me -- 7. Applying the new forces -- 8. Oxygen -- 9. Finishing the unfinished revolution.

ISBN

0066620678

LCCN

^^^00059767^

OCLC

44627363

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library