Brave New Unwired World: The Digital Big Bang

by Alex Lightman and William Rojas

Book Overview

A whirlwind tour through the exciting landscape opening up around digital wireless communication In The Brave New Unwired World, the CEO of one of today's hottest wireless businesses explores the latest thinking and trends in the exciting world of digital wireless communication and boldly predicts the future of this hot new field. He acquaints readers with the amazing technologies involved and the no less amazing profit opportunities opening up around...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471441104
• ISBN13: 9780471441106
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.7" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

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.

See the future, and its business opportunities

A must for senior executives and policy makers around the world: Pervasive computing unobtrusively built into clothes, appliances, accessories--all connected wirelessly, using new technologies most of us don't know is already on the drawing boards. It's hard to imagine for most of us, but as the authors point out, the first 30,000 or so people who "get it" will be the ones who make the money. One of the most techically-grounded, insightful and credible visions of the future I've read.

Very timely

This book is essential reading for anyone interested in knowingwhere the future of wireless communications will go.The book touches on many of the important topics of our time,including pervasive computing (ubiqcomp) and wearable computing.Indeed, much of the future demand for wireless communicationwill come from digital eyeglasses (computer vision systemsbuilt into eyeglasses, visual prosthetics, Global eHealth, etc.).For teaching courses related to or using wireless communiction,even if this book is not being used as the main text,I would highly recommend the book as additional optional reading.

This book is a must have for anyone interested in the future

The authors have done a brilliant job on exploring the fringes of wireless technology research and showing how these are going to become the next generations of mainstream products. How they are going to change all of our lives. It's rare to see this kind of information discussed publicly instead of behind the closed doors of some corporate R & D Lab with everyone under NDA.

Concise, enlightening, mandatory digital future reading

Mr. Lightman has his finger on the pulse, the beam, and the tsunami of the digital future. Great illustrations, well written, perfect time in my career to get such a surge of valuable information. For Computing and Telecom professionals, this should be required reading for all management...