Dimensions
161 x 241 x 27mm
From electronic ink that can be any book you like to keyboards woven into blue-jean jackets, this is the guide to future technology in your environment.
Despite huge leaps in technology design, the digital revolution still has not replaced our cumbersome portable hardware such as laptops, mobile phones and pagers. What we need are faster more adaptable accessories for our modern lives.
Neil Gershenfeld, a director of the MIT Media Lab's Things That Think consortium, takes us on a tour of the future in which people - not technology - prevail. We will be wearing computers that "think" for us; touching a door handle will unlock a door; picking up a telephone will download your email, and a handshake will exchange business cards. Neil Gershenfeld paints a wonderful picture of a society where humans and machines effortlessly communicate.
