Book description
Chris Yapp has blogged for BCS for 6 years on the future of technology and how the economic and social impacts of technical developments may play out. Covering a variety of topics, this collection of his articles provides a guide to the opportunities and possible pitfalls of technical progress and how it will change the world we live in today.
Table of contents
- FRONT COVER
- TITLE PAGE
- DEDICATION
- CONTENTS
- AUTHOR
- PREFACE
- PART 1: WORKING LIFE
- 1. DEATH OF THE IT PROFESSIONAL
- 2. THE FUTURE OF PROFESSIONS
- 3. THE FUTURE OF WORK
- 4. DIGITAL DETOX
- 5. WHERE NEXT?
- PART 2: THE WEB IS OVER – INNOVATION
- 6. INNOVATION IN IT
- 7. SELF-DRIVING CARS
- 8. SMART CITIES
- 9. INNOVATION VERSUS REGULATION
- 10. WHERE NEXT?
- PART 3: DATA, DATA EVERYWHERE – BIG DATA AND THE IOT
- 11. THE IOT: THE NEXT SECURITY FRONTIER
- 12. BIG BROTHER AND BIG DATA
- 13. HEALTH DATA AND WEARABLE TECH
- 14. DISCOVERABILITY AND THE IOT
- 15. THE T-SHAPED LEARNER
- 16. WHERE NEXT?
- PART 4: TWO SETS OF FOOTPRINTS? – PRIVACY
- 17. INFORMATION DESIGN, IDENTITY AND PRIVACY
- 18. PRIVACY, SIGNAL AND NOISE
- 19. THE GOOGLE JUDGMENT
- 20. ONLINE FAKERY
- 21. WHERE NEXT?
- PART 5: LIBRARIANS IN A ROOM – MAKING LIFE BETTER
- 22. IT FOR ALL… BUT WHEN?
- 23. CONTRARIAN HISTORIES
- 24. SEARCH LITERACY
- 25. THE END OF UI WARS?
- 26. CLIMATE CHANGE AND IT
- 27. WHERE NEXT?
- AFTERWORD
- BCS, THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE FOR IT
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
Product information
- Title: Future Perspectives
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2016
- Publisher(s): BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
- ISBN: 9781780173313
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