Communications of the ACM (The Next 50 Years)

Communications of the ACM - Feburary 1997, Volume 40, Number 2
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Special Anniversary Issue: "The Next 50 Years"

The Human Connection
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29 - Introduction
30 - The Body Electric (Gordon Bell)
33 - Hardware, Software, and Infoware (Tim O'Reilly)
35 - Education and Jobs in the Digital World (Esther Dyson)
37 - A Time of Transition (Danny Hillis)
40 - Pervasive Information System (Joel Birnbaum)
42 - Garage Cinema and the Future of Media Technology (Marc Davis)
49 - How to Surf the Technology Waves We Created (Dennis Tsichritzis)
55 - The Frontier Between Us (Jaron Lanier)
57 - World-Wide Computer (Time Berners-Lee)
59 - Between Hope and Fear (Ben Shneiderman)
63 - Post-WIMP User Interfaces (Andries van Dam)

Societal Dimensions
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68 - The Best of All Possible Worlds (John Perry Barlow)
75 - Better Democracy Through Technology (Brock N. Meeks)
79 - The Digital Revolution in Retrospect (Bruce Sterling)
80 - Asleep at the Keyboard (Steve Talbott)
83 - Directing Policy-Making Beyond the Net's Metaphor (Jerry Berman and Daniel J. Weitzner)
85 - The Right to Read (Richard Stallman)
88 - What Will Happen in the Next 50 Years? (Ted Selker)
90 - Crush and Crash: Logic of a Terrible Tomorrow (Theodor Holm Nelson)

The Science of Future Technology
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92 - Sensors: The Next Wave of Innovation (Paul Saffo)
98 - Looking for a Humane Interface: Will Computers Ever Become Easy to Use? (Jef Raskin)
102 - The Past and Future History of the Internet (Barry M. Leiner, Vinton G. Cerf, David D. Clark, Robert E. Kahn, Leonard Kleinrock, Daniel C. Lynch, John Postel, Larry G. Roberts, Stephen Wolff)
109 - Look in the Spaces for Tomorrow's Innovations (Wm. A. Wulf)
112 - The Microprocessor: Engine of the Technology Revolution (Gordon E. Moore)
115 - Globalizing Business, Eduction, Culture Through the Internet (Nabil Adam, Baruch Auerbuch, Jacob Slonim, Peter Wegner, Yedena Yesha)
122 - My Computer-Related Wish List for the Next 50 Years (Charlie Rosen)
125 - Spinning Webs into the 21st Century (Sachem Web Slingers)
129 - Software Engineering: Stretching the Limits of Complexity (Nancy G. Leveson)
132 - A New Social Contract for Research (Peter J. Denning)
135 - Communications Technology and its Impact by 2010 (David J. Farber)
139 - Database Research Faces the Information Explosion (Henry F. Korth and Abraham Silberschatz)

Columns
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11 - Personal Computing: Technology in Bloom: Implications for the Next 50 Years (Larry Press)
19 - Digital Village: Cyberspace 2000: Dealing with Information Overload (Hal Berghel)
170 - Inside Risks: Hopes for Fewer Risks (Peter G. Neumann)

Departments
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27 . ACM97 Speakers Corner
144 - Index to Advertisers
143 - Career Opportunities

Cover Illustration by Matsu