Tips for Time Travelers

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Summary: overhyped claptrap
Review: A series of short rants for people with short attention spans, in a Wired like hyperbole and full of the short of boasting done by
dotcom weenies before 1998, this book is not recommended.

Not even at a "newer, lower price"

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Summary: thought provoking and inspirational
Review: Anyone interested in technology and the future will find a lot of food for thought from this well writter, concise, and profound work.

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Summary: Tantalizing Tangential Topics
Review: I liked the "Cut to the chase" nature of his writing - engineer speak par excellance. Although sometimes a little rambling, there were more than enough jewels in every topic to make this a must read for anyone considering our current metamorphosis as an e culture. Not just for the technocrats either. Enjoy!

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Summary: Hey, cool! :)
Review: I love this sort of technology! I can't WAIT for this to become reality! Excellent work, a fascinating book!

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Summary: A few billion dollar ideas... lots of junk.
Review: I loved "Tips For Time Travelers" because it makes perfect sense. Cochrane is pragmatic. Although he sees what we all see, he sees more and is compelled to do something about it. He has unquestionably proved that a desire to do more, to create, to make something better and the willingness to act on the desires can pay off.

His vision for the future is based on the logical and practical adoption of technology. The fact that this will mean chips in our head and fiber in our veins, is a good thing. Our body is only a shell and we have been enhancing it externally since the beginning of time. Technology will make it feasable to go under the skin.

As Emerson said "All things being taken, it is not instruction but provocation that I would rather take from anothers soul" and Cochrane manages to be both provocative and practical as he leads us into the future.

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Summary: Not recommended
Review: I made the mistake of buying this book after reading the cover blurb, and found it dull, except for a few interesting concepts- but too few to make it worthwhile. It is one of the few books in my collection which I am thinking of flogging.

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Summary: Cochrane makes getting back to the future an easy ride.
Review: It's hard to disagree with the likes of Nicholas Negroponte, Douglas Adams and Bran Ferren when they rave about Peter Cochrane's book, but what they can't say is what a great book it is for the regular guy on the street. Cochrane writes in such an easy style, his book is more like a conversation with a person you'd sit next to on an airplane, or one of the other dads at daycare picking up their kids -- and he makes the future of technology seem real and lets you see how it will actually change your life. It's a great book and I really like the very short chapters. Does he actually have a camera in his glass-walled office called "Little Brother" so his team can watch what their boss is up to? Does he actually carry only digital pictures of his family on his laptop -- no paper-printed pix in his wallet? Does he really have as much trouble upgrading his software as the rest of us? Read the book to find out.

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Summary: Even the way the book is layed out is for Time Travellers
Review: The book is layed out in seperate monolgues so its easy to pick when I was caught with 5 minutes free. It looks at modern day life, technology and society asking those obvious questions about it all. Well worth a read.