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Summary: On The Mark
Review: Dr. Schultze eloquently unmasks the successes of technology to show how values have been displaced. He does not treat technology itself as an evil, but he does spell out the Pyrrhic victory in store for us in our never ending quest for faster messaging and the overzealousness of capturing information. Dr. Schultze offers some sobering thoughts for chief information officers in all industries as well as the CEO's. He has managed to focus on the very heart of what our technical world has done to unravel the cloth of our character. It was uplifting and encouraging for me after 20 years in the industry to realize that others are noticing this trend - a trend that needs reversal. His observations align well with the reasons many software engineers are looking at agile programming practices (e.g. extreme programming, SCRUM etc) which establish their foundations on direct interaction between developers, nurturing the courage to do the right thing and realizing the basic humanity of developers themselves. In pure economics alone, we are finding the deception of our quest for more computing capacity. While upholding Moore's law to double computing capacity every eighteen months, industry has also realized that the cost of research and development has doubled every 18 months as well. Basic arithmetic tells us there will be a breaking point. Dr. Schultze tells us without explicitly doing the math we can look into our hearts and see another breaking point - a breaking point of common decency and the human spirit.
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Summary: DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME
Review: The internet has about as much to do with morality as the telephone. The author makes some interesting observations but not enough to fill a book and certainly not anything ground breaking.
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Summary: This ain't Shakespeare, Baby!
Review: Uh huh, this guy's a genius. Technology will soon take over and kill us all, UNLESS you read this book and develop the so-called "habits of the high tech heart". Baloney! My computer has made no attempts on my life since I bought it, and it's out of warranty to boot! Skip this book unless you get chills everytime your alarm clock wakes you up. Eeeck! Technology! I'm trembling! Technology's out to get you! Haha, or so Schultze would like you to believe!
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