Futuristic technologies (which frighten most people) are a delight to Peter Cochrane, an internatinal speaker with Business Week's Executive Programs, and head of Research at British Telecommunications. Human cloning, identification chips implanted under the skin, digitally enhanced brains, and machines that can think--these are things which he not only believes will occur in the near future; Cochrane actually embraces these scary, science-fiction notions as natural extensions of human development. While he remains an unbashed optimist about the future of technology, he is fully cognizant about the jarring nature of rapid technology, he is fully cognizant about the jarring nature of rapid technological change, both to individuals and to societies. As little as 30 years ago, he points out, an individual would meet and communicate with only 3,000 people in their lifetime. Now, we can do so in a matter of weeks or days.

Tips for Time Travelers

Politics & Social Sciences

Cochrane, Peter

Social Sciences

McGraw=Hill

Colonial Ambition

History

Australia & Oceania

Melbourne University

This guide is based on a radical approach to the handling of information, where success goes to those who "work smarter, not harder". From it the reader learns how to survive and thrive under incessant bombardment from data of every conceivable kind. The workbook shows how to achieve more by doing less, and introduce the reader to ways of thinking and acting to help create a new framework for information handling. With the aid of examples, tips and exercises, the reader can become a beneficiary of the IT revolution rather than one of its victims.

Managing Information (Gower Management Workbooks Series)

Garai, Hugh

Business & Money

Gower Pub.Co.

32 IN COLOR PLATES, DESCRIBED IN DETAIL; 128 PAGE BOOK WITH INDEX...LATE MIDDLE AGE, 17TH CEN,,, 18TH CEN; FRENCH WARS; 19TH CEN;, 20TH CEN ;

Scottish military dress

World

Distributed in the United States by Sterling Pub. Co

This is a collection of published and original monologues by Peter Cochrane about the likely effects of new technology on business and society today and in the future. Together, they represent a penetrating and entertaining insight into cutting-edge technology. From the information superhighway to the Internet, office robots to virtual meetings, digital money to home banking, mobile communication to New Age nomads, technophobia to computer games, artificial life systems to sex, Cochrane tackles a wide range of subjects in an age when society is under siege from technology.

Tips for Time Travellers: Visionary Insights into New Technology, Life and the Future by One of the World's Leading Technology Prophets

Orion Business (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )

108 Tips for Time Travellers

orion#

"Peter Cochrane is one of our most far-sighted visionaries, and brings brilliant clarity and focus to our understanding of ourselves and our technologies, and of how profoundly each is transforming the other." -Douglas Adams, Author, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy 
In Uncommon Sense, Peter Cochrane's follow up to the radical 108 Tips for Time Traveller, Peter explains how very simple analysis allows the prediction of such debacles as the 3G auction and the subsequent collapse of an industry, whilst simple-minded thinking is dangerous in the context of a world that is predominantly chaotic and out of control. People balked when Peter suggested a wholesale move to eWorking, the rise of email and text messaging, and the dotcom regime mirroring the boom and bust cycle of the industrial revolution. His predictions of the use and growth of mobile devices and communication, or use of chip implants for humans to replace ID cards, passports, and medical records, or iris scanners and fingerprint readers - were all seen as unlikely. Today they are a reality. How then will the world react to his predictions as set out in Uncommon Sense of a networked world of distributed ignorance and sharing overcoming an old world of concentrated skill and control? To everything becoming 'Napsterised' in every dimension, where storage and processing power cost nothing, and become connected without the help of the old network companies? A world where individuals create their own networks, where laws of copyright and resale, and old business models have to be changed as giant industries are dragged kicking and screaming out of the 19th Century and into the 21st? Peter Cochrane poses and answers questions, suggests solutions, and raises red flags on issues that need to be addressed. Tables, diagrams, pictures and illustrations generously support all of the text, with the most difficult aspects illustrated by simulations and other material on a CD and links to a web site with an ongoing expansion of the themes addressed.

Uncommon Sense: Out of the Box Thinking for An In the Box World

Management & Leadership

Capstone

If you can imagine it it will happen...if you can't you're out of it! This book is a white-knuckle ride. It drills down into what we are doing now and comes up in the future to see what comes next. The book is a commentary and a clarion call and an invitation to see round corners and a clarion call to respond to what's there. Roy Lilley has been speaking on Futureproofing around the world throughout the 'nineties. His aim has been to awaken managers entrepreneurs and anyone who will listen to the fact that the world is changing. Faster and faster like a spiral fundamentally and structurally leaving behand those who are unprepared. Thousands of people are now meeting the challenges Futureproofing presents. You decide - keep up or give up. If you have heard Roy Lilley speak on Futureproofing you will want this book ...if you have not yet heard him read it first.

Futureproofing: If You Can Imagine it, it Will Happen, If You Can't - You're Out of it

Lilley, Roy

CRC-Press

If you can imagine it it will happen...if you can't you're out of it! This book is a white-knuckle ride.  It drills down into what we are doing now and comes up in the future to see what comes next.  The book is a commentary and a clarion call and an invitation to see round corners and a clarion call to respond to what's there. Roy Lilley has been speaking on Futureproofing around the world throughout the 'nineties.  His aim has been to awaken managers entrepreneurs and anyone who will listen to the fact that the world is changing.  Faster and faster like a spiral fundamentally and structurally leaving behand those who are unprepared. Thousands of people are now meeting the challenges Futureproofing presents.  You decide - keep up or give up. If you have heard Roy Lilley speak on Futureproofing you will want this book ...if you have not yet heard him read it first.

The GP Training Handbook

Medical Books

Lilley, Roy C.

Medicine

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