Foreword.
Preface.
INTRODUCTION--THE DISAPPEARANCE OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS.
The Knowledge Age.
Defeating Space and Time.
Living in a World of "Intelligent Objects".
Landlubbers.
On Stage.
My Next Door Neighbor Lives 10,000 Doors Away.
Who Said That?
A Vision of Tomorrow: "A Million e-Businesses, Interacting with a
Billion People, Through a Trillion Interconnected Intelligent
Devices..."
Do-It-Yourself Services.
What a Beautiful Voice.
Who Pays?
It Doesn't End Here...
Index.
About the Authors.
About the Authors...
Roberto Saracco is director of marketing and communications at
CSELT, the research lab of the Telecom Italia Group. Mr. Saracco
has chaired the European Visionary Research Group on the Super
Intelligent Network, which designed goals for research beyond the
year 2000. He also chaired the CNOM and EntNtet Technical Committee
for the IEEE Communications Society, and since 1998 has served as
the Society's secretary of the Technical Affairs Council.
Jeffrey R. Harrow is a senior consulting engineer for Compaq's
Technology and Corporate Development Organization. Mr. Harrow
writes a weekly technology journal, The Rapidly Changing Face of
Computing, which is available on the Web at www.compaq.com/rcfoc,
and which explores the innovations and trends of contemporary
computing and the technologies that drive them. He also shares
seminars on the subject with audiences worldwide.
Robert Weihmayer is director of Information Technology for
Enterprise Systems at GTE Internetworking in Cambridge, MA. Mr.
Weihmayer is the author of over 20 technical papers in the area of
combinatorial optimization and artificial intelligence applied to
telecommunications network design, planning, and management.
Currently, he is cochair of the Technical Program Committee for
NOMS 2000, the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management
Symposium.
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