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> July 7, 2000:
Hour One: Future Computing
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Look a few years into the future. You're finally using the picture-phone
that everyone has been talking about since the 1950's, and zipping
to work in your own personal flying car... but what does your
computer look like? Do you even have something that people today
would recognize as a computer? And how do you interact with the
devices that you use to collect and manage the flow of information
around you?
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On this hour of Science Friday, we'll be talking with two computer
visionaries - David Gelernter and Michael Dertouzos - about the future
of computing. How will things be designed (and how should they
be designed?) From matters as simple as the point-and-click computer
interface to the distinction between a "personal" computer
and a computer network, the information technology world is changing.
Call in and find out how - 1-800-989-8255.
Guests:
David Gelernter
Author,
"Machine Beauty: Elegance and the Heart of Technology"
Professor of Computer Science
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
Michael Dertouzos
Author,
"What Will Be: How the New World of Information Will Change Our Lives"
Director, Laboratory for Computer
Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Books/Articles Discussed:
Related Links:
- Edge
70 - "The Second Coming" by David Gelernter
- MIT "Project Oxygen"
- CNET.com
- News - MIT project seeks to make PCs invisible
- Microsoft
Press Release -- .NET: A Platform for the Next Generation Internet
BetaNews
- The .NET Future…What it means for you
- ACM
articles on user interfaces
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Produced By: Charles Bergquist
Web Producer: Charles
Bergquist
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