Brave New Unwired World: The Digital Big Bang and the Infinite Internet
Author: Alex Lightman, William Rojas
List Price: $29.95
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ISBN: 0471441104
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (08 March, 2002)
Sales Rank: 78,140
Average Customer Rating: 4.14 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 1 out of 5
Nothing great
This is a book, which while describing what the world might look like due to the spread of wireless networks, offers nothing new that isn't copied from some other book. Read something from Ray Kurzweil or George Gilder instead, where you get the original material, rather than something that was copied from them. Plus, I have met the author of this book and he is kind of a jerk. Don't stoke his massive ego by buying this overpriced book.
Rating: 5 out of 5
A compass for wireless business and investment
A thouroughly researched, detailed book on what direction wireless and ubiquitous computing are going in. There may be those who shake their heads at how much these new sensors/appliances/gadgets will influence our lives, but the book lays out the data and trends methodically. This is must reading for any manager of a high-tech company or anyone investing in same. The book is highly unusual in its level of illustration, examples and background data -- many other books on future technology, in contrast, offer only oceans of opinionated verbiage with little to back it up. Any reader alert to opportunity should get a very high ROI out of buying this book.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Great material but a disjointed presentation
Brave New Unwired World addresses an exciting genre, personal wireless systems. The book also brings up and discusses many of the latest technologies in mobile computing.Where this book falls short is it's presentation of more complex areas of mobile computing. Instead of building up to deeper issues with background and supporting information, there are spikes of depth. Specifically, terms and concepts will be brought up with little or no supporting background. And just as suddenly the depth will be abandoned, jumping to a new point at a low level. This makes for a very disjointed presentation.
If this were the only work in the field I would rate it higher. However there are similar works that are far superior (ex. Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution by Howard Rheingold) and cover the same subject matter.
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