Bricklin on technology
In a world that divides us, technology creates connection. Cell phones, e-mail, digital cameras, personal Web sites-they all join us, however tenuously, to what we value. Is connectivity what we're willing to pay for? Should technology be our servant or a tool that helps us do other things? Wha...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Indianapolis, IN :
Wiley Pub., Inc
2009.
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627471306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Bricklin on Technology; About the Author; Credits; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: Case Studies and Details; Why Delve Into Details?; The Mindset of an Engineer; Chapter 2: What Will People Pay For?; Cell Phone Use; Photographs; Getting Paid; Self-Expression; Chapter 3: The Recording Industry and Copying; Example from Another Industry; A Book Publisher Speaks; What Happened Since; Legal Issues with Copying; Chapter 4: Leveraging the Crowd; "The Cornucopia of the Commons" Essay; Related Writings; Chapter 5: Cooperation; Dan Ariely, March 2, 2008
- Learning About Cooperation from the NavyChapter 6: Blogging and Podcasting: Observations through Their Development; About Blogging; Some General Comments about Creating Personal Material to Share on the Web; I Asked a Question and the World Answered; How Blogging Helped Blogger; Bloggers at the 2004 DNC in Boston; Podcasting; Chapter 7: Tools: My Philosophy about What We Should Be Developing; Some Specific Tools; The Value of Being General Purpose; Chapter 8: Hands On: Tablet and Gestural Computing; Gestures and No Pen; What the Devices of the Future Will Be Like
- Looking at the Usability Aspects of a Famous SituationChapter 9: The Long Term; Chapter 10: The PC: Historical Information about an Important Tool; Source Material; Chapter 11: The Wiki: An Interview with Its Inventor; Ward Cunningham, February 14, 2007; Chapter 12: VisiCalc; The VisiCalc Story; Summing It All Up; Index
