- Paperback: 290 pages
- Publisher: Innowin Publishing; Large type edition edition (August 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 098249081X
- ISBN-13: 978-0982490815
- Product Dimensions: 14 x 21.6 x 1.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 363 g
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"Web On-The-Go" is 'the' stimulus package that will change not only America but the entire world. This book not only provides ideas for future applications on the mobile platform, but also inspires people to think beyond regular applications, like email, chat and social networking. People, who have read this book, always come up with surprisingly new ideas for industries like, transportation, shipping, health care, public safety, security, etc. A must-read for all policy makers, executives, innovating managers, engineers, and the general public.
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4.2 out of 5 stars (6 customer reviews)
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting, Nov 18 2009
By Tina "Tina" - Published on Amazon.com
Ce commentaire est de: Web On-The-Go (Paperback)
I work for a major university, specifically in their fundraising departments and one of the things that we keep hearing more and more about is social media and how to maximize on the whole web "thing". This is one of the reasons I wanted to read Web On-The-Go: A Previews of the Way of Living in a Wireless Web World.
Author Bala Sankar starts his book off by giving us some history into how technology came to be (there is even a section with Leonardo Da Vinci! He segways into how human beings have developed a "love" and sometimes "hate" relationship with technology, but his main point is strongly heard throughout the book - technology is advancing at an incredible speed and we need to be able to keep up and to understand just what is possible right now and what is coming.
This book is very complete and will be a dream book for all you techno addicts out there. Absolutely every aspect of the world of technology is covered - including things like "why cells don't work in the forest darn it - and how come they haven't gotten to that point in technology yet" (this was a favorite of mine as this has happened to me!!!).
This book is definitely a book on gadgets, the web present and future and while I thought it might have been dry (full of facts), the author did a surprisingly good job of detailing the subject matter in an everday, fun, conversation type of voice. I especially like it when stories were included.
This is an interesting read and frankly a bit of a scary one as I keep asking myself what on earth else our little brains can think of to develop!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Reviewed by: Kirkus Discoveries, Feb 10 2010
By Bala Sankar - Published on Amazon.com
Ce commentaire est de: Web On-The-Go (Paperback)
Reviewed by: Kirkus Discoveries, Kirkus Media LLC, 6411 Burleson Rd., TX 78744. [...]
A look at a future where everyone is linked by an expansive wireless Internet.In vignettes populated by characters from a hip modern family, the book creatively contrasts the limitations, gaps and incompatibilities of our current information technology infrastructure with the potential of the emerging wireless Web infrastructure. Fictional situations include a trip to the zoo, being lost in the woods, troubleshooting the tracking of shipping containers and a vacation road trip to southern California--situations all bogged down with technological hassles that lead to bad outcomes.
However, the author then reimagines these tales in a world where the wireless Web is ubiquitous, and everyone can easily access it with his or her own Mobile Internet Device (MID--similar to an iPhone or Blackberry) and use quickly downloadable location applications to streamline day-to-day living and organizational operations. The book also explores the technology's potential benefits to academic institutions, police and security services, shopping, businesses, utilities and the environment.
But every utopian façade has its dystopian flipside. The book's giddy optimism spins increases in governmental powers and intrusions into personal privacy and liberty as reasonable tradeoffs for safety and security. In this wireless new world, people can track the exact location of other people--invisible highway speed traps wirelessly send tickets to the MIDs in speeding cars, a Global Traveling System and the electronic passports on MIDs allow international authorities to easily monitor people's travels and state authorities can track the exact whereabouts of noncitizens with a Tracking Visitors MID application. The book hits a low point portraying the use of this last technology in Singapore, where visa stays are strictly enforced, and as a possible means of monitoring Mexican immigrants who are within the United States on temporary work permits.
A visionary examination of how a pervasive wireless Web infrastructure could improve society, but it shies away from confronting the inevitably negative elements of an overconnected world.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Future of Mobile Internet Devices, Jan 29 2010
By Rebecca Johnson "The Rebecca Review" - Published on Amazon.com
Ce commentaire est de: Web On-The-Go (Hardcover)
Imagine a world where you have a Mobile Internet Device (MID) that contains all your personal information, credit card information, even an electronic passport. Forget where your car is parked? This device can find it. Want to track a shipping container? This device can even find the container if it falls off the ship.
Bala Sankar has an amazing imagination and he combines his love of the web with great storytelling skills. This book kept my attention from the first page to the last. I enjoyed how Bala Sankar presented current realities and then predicted future scenarios. He explains how most of the innovations he explores are not yet available. Yes we can surf the web on a cell phone but I haven't heard of a device that will download money to a store.
While there are many Mobile Internet Devices for sale today the ideas in "Web On-The-Go" are probably going to be a reality in the very near future. If you want to see what one of these devices look like see the Clarion MiND Mobile Internet Navigation Device (Black) or the Magellan Maestro 4700 4.7-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator.
The Clarion MiND Mobile Internet Navigation Device has an optional car docking station, has GPS navigation and full web browsing. The device Bala Sankar talks about is just a little more advanced. He envisions a device that can find your friends or family members (look up Google latitude which already does this), translate languages when you are traveling and unfortunately also alerts you when you have received a speeding ticket.
I think anyone would enjoy this book as it is very easy to understand. After reading this book you will probably be looking forward to the day when Bala Sankar's version of a MID is available.
~The Rebecca Review
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