TOM STANDAGE – THE FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY

From the industrial revolution to the railway age, through the era of electrification, the advent of mass production, and finally to the information age, the same pattern keeps repeating itself. An exciting, vibrant phase of innovation and financial speculation is followed by a crash, which begins a longer, more stately period during which the technology is actually deployed properly.

There is a collection of surveys and articles. The Economist. Technology has come a long way and where it is going is examined. Tom Standage talks about the future of technology.

In part one, we look at topics such as the greyiTom Standage – The Future of Technologyng, the growing importance of security, the rise of outsourcing, and the challenge of complexity, all of which have more to do with implementation than innovation.

New technologies appear first in consumer gadgets such as mobile phones as part of the shift from corporate computing to consumer technology. The emergence of the mobile phone as the digital Swiss Army knife, the rise of digital cameras, and the growing size and importance of the games industry are some of the topics covered.

The third part looks at which technology will lead the next great phase of technological disruption.

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Tom Standage is the author of The Future of Technology.