Preface |
Acknowledgments |
Why Change / 1.: |
Charting New Terrain |
Rise of the Information Marketplace |
Integrate Computers into Our Lives |
Give Us a Gas Pedal and Steering Wheel |
Reach All People |
Let's Talk / 2.: |
Elusive Intelligence |
Speech and Vision: Different Roles |
Show Me |
A New Metaphor |
Brain Chips |
Do It for Me / 3.: |
The Ascent to Meaning: E-Forms |
Meaning on the Web: Metadata |
Bring Things under Control |
Hundreds of Dumb Servants |
Start the Ball Rolling |
Automation and Society |
Get Me What I Want / 4.: |
Organize or Search? |
Discovering What Your Information Means |
The Semantic Web Conspiracy |
A New Information Model |
Call to Action |
Help Us Work Together / 5.: |
The Challenge |
Messages and Packages |
Collaboration Systems |
Information Work |
Privacy |
More Social Consequences |
Distance Education |
Adapt to Me / 6.: |
A Growing Need |
Pushing the OS Upward |
Nomadic Software |
Applying the New Forces / 7.: |
Health |
Commerce |
Disaster Control |
Medicine in the Bush |
Total Financial Services |
Play |
Sundials |
Why These Five Forces? |
Dovetailing People with the Forces |
Oxygen / 8.: |
Putting It All Together |
The Handy 21 |
The Enviro 21 |
The N21 Network |
Speech |
Automation |
Individualized Information Access |
Collaboration |
Customization |
The Oxygen Software System |
Turning on a Dime |
Finishing the Unfinished Revolution / 9.: |
Info Royalty |
Global Reach |
Monoculture and Overload |
The Technology Fountain |
No Machines beyond This Point |
Greater Humanity? |
Beyond the Information Revolution |
Index |
Preface |
Acknowledgments |
Why Change / 1.: |
Charting New Terrain |
Rise of the Information Marketplace |
Integrate Computers into Our Lives |