Joseph K. Krivickas, 40 Chief executive, iPhrase Technologies BOOK: "Hope's Road" by Joseph P. Kazickas (1999) WHY "Lithuania was closed off by the Iron Curtain for 50 years.
Thanks to new printing technology, books can now be cheaply produced on demand.
Talked about illness and health, faith and technology, books and money.
The evening provides support for the library's new technology, books and other programs.
In my Council district, six branches have received computer technology, books, other materials, new lighting, handicapped accessibility, among other improvements.
Tim O'Reilly, president of O'Reilly & Associates, a Sebastopol, Calif., producer of technology books, Web material and seminars, started a blog at www.oreillynet.com/weblogs /author/27, two years ago.
The future belongs to services that respond in real time to information provided either by their users or by non-human sensors, predicts Tim O'Reilly, the founder of O'Reilly Media, a publisher of technology books who coined the term "Web 2.0".
He wrote science and technology books acclaimed for making the theoretical sexy, including "The Information," a history from cuneiforms to coding about the thing we want most and have the most of, the thing that defines us, and the thing that brings pleasure and predicament in equal measure.
In part, perhaps, this is because writing was the first art form to undergo a revolution of mass technology; books were being printed in thousands of copies, while one still had to make a pilgrimage to hear a symphony or see a painting.
Edward Tenner, author of technology books like "Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences" and a senior research associate at the National Museum of American History, traced part of the problem to the rise of 10-digit dialing, which is almost a necessity now, even for local calls.
