When Things Start to Think - ISBN:0805058745

When Things Start to Think

Date: 14 April 2011, 04:20

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A computer in your shoe? Maybe so. Neil Gershenfeld, director of MIT's Media Lab, joins the ranks of techno-prognosticators with When Things Start to Think, and his focus is on how the future of computing will fit into our physical realities. This sensorial focus allows Gershenfeld to explore such science fictional ideas as wearable computers, nanotech circuitry implants, as well as such concerns as emotions, money, and civil rights in the new age of artificial intelligence. Gershenfeld provides a historical overview of the development of computers and extrapolates a world in which we will be forced to deal with things that think all the time. This can't help but reshape our society in ways we must try to imagine. You may be surprised at how far along this road we are--Gershenfeld is in exactly the right place to tell this story, and it's a whole lot of fun (and a little scary) to ride this wave with him. --Adam Fisher
From Publishers Weekly
At MIT's Media Lab, the researchers and students already live in the future. Gershenfeld, director of the Physics and Media Group and co-director of the Things That Think consortium at the Media Lab, offers a user-friendly tour of that present future. There, "smart paper" is recycled by your printer and the coffee pot recognizes your cup and serves up your preference. Gershenfeld's sympathies are with those who feel they are the servants of computers rather than the other way around. His answer to a recent report of a man who shot his crashed PC (four times in the hard drive and once in the monitor) is to give computers the ability to sense and respond to their environments. At a recent fashion show, he reports, MIT grad students modeled jackets outfitted with very personal computers that are powered by natural movement and can play music, or change the appearance of the fabric from solid to pinstripe. So why do the rest of us have to settle for staring at the screens of our blind, dumb and deaf PCs? Gershenfeld makes a strong case that compartmentalization and secrecy in education, research and industry has brought us to an impasse that can be overcome only by creative chaos and openness. Especially for techno-phobes, Gershenfeld's easy style and light use of technical terms makes his book a fun and tantalizing glimpse into the world to come. Illustrations.

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