108 Tips for Time Travellers

by Peter Cochrane

This is a collection of published and original monologues by Peter Cochrane about the likely effects of new technology on business and society today and in the future. Together, they represent a penetrating and entertaining insight into cutting-edge technology. From the information superhighway to the Internet, office robots to virtual meetings, digital money to home banking, mobile communication to New Age nomads, technophobia to computer games, artificial life systems to sex, Cochrane tackles a wide range of subjects in an age when society is under siege from technology.

Genres: Science, Technology

Paperback

First published October 1, 1998

About the author

Peter Cochrane’s writing about war includes the award-winning Simpson and the Donkey: The Making of a Legend; the companion volume to the ABC TV series Australians at War; and two studies of wartime photography, The Western Front, 1916–18 and Tobruk 1941. Cochrane is also the author of Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy, which won the Age Book of the Year award and the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History, and two works of fiction: the novella Governor Bligh and the Short Man and the recently published novel The Making of Martin Sparrow.

Reviews

[Kevin O'Brien · Rating 3 out of 5]

Peter Cochrane was the head of the research labs at British Telecommunications, and this book is a series of short essays on his ideas about future technologies. Given that this book was assembled in 1999 (I believe the individual articles were written in the 1990s), events have overtaken some of his projections, but they are still interesting. At 2 pages per essay, this is a book best dipped into rather than read at one sitting. There are 108 of these short essays in this book.

[Pixie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Written in 1997 by a early adopter of technology. It's fun to read what he got right with his predictions and also to find out about tech that is commonplace now, that was only available in labs in the late 90's.

[Nihar Thakkar · Rating 2 out of 5]

outdated book available only at a stupid library such as d one near me...
nothing special.just another book with good title but old contents