Featured Title:
Inescapable Data
by Chris Stakutis and John Webster
Prentice Hall PTR, 2005

What's likely to emerge from the current primordial soup of wired and wireless gadgetry we live with today? The authors asked more than 50 technologists, sociologists, entrepreneurs, consultants, researchers, media leaders, and futurists to shed light on emerging technologies. The book, an easy read for business and IT staff alike, offers insight into the implications of ubiquitous data capture. Topics covered include:

• The emerging connectivity divide
• Inescapable data's technical components: Asynchronous communications, pervasive computing devices, wireless, and XML
• Uncontrolled information availability: risks to security and well-being
• The future of technical infrastructure, grids, smart storage, and beyond
• New modes of information delivery: Nonnumeric, nontextual, unobtrusive

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