What Will Be: How the New World of Information Will Change Our Lives – The Essential Examination of Technology, Medicine, and Telecommunications

What Will Be: How the New World of Information Will Change Our Lives – The Essential Examination of Technology, Medicine, and Telecommunications

• all the music, film and text ever produced will be available on-demand in our own homes
• your "bodynet" will let you make phone calls, check email and pay bills as you walk down the street
• advances in telecommunication will radically alter the role of face-to-face contact in our lives
• global disparities in infrastructure will widen the gap between rich and poor
• surgical mini-robots and online care will change the practice of medicine as we know it.