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In one human generation, the world's work has moved from muscle to machines that move information rather than goods. Driving the information revolution is the computer, a machine of unquestioned power but questionable intelligence. Arno Penzias, whose Bell Laboratories stands at the center of electronic innovation, explores here the relationship of human beings to the new electronic world.

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Library Journal Review

This is a positive, readable book about computers and people, not as in Sherry Turkle's best-selling The Second Self ( LJ 6/15/84), but told historically, and through anecdote. The author, a Nobel Prize winner and Bell Labs vice president, reveals the most through the insightful and diverse examples he gives. He talks about the computer's origins, workings, applications, limitations, management, artifical intelligence, and super capabilities. Penzias emphasizes that ``the world's most powerful information tool will continue to be the human mind.'' This is a rare title to be enjoyed by the technical and nontechnical reader alike.-- Janice Dunham, John Jay Coll. Lib., New York (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

Within the complexities of daily life, the computer plays an ever-increasing role in maintaining order. Penzias' insightful work describes how computers work, charts human reaction to the machines and their encroachment, and extols the enhancements that machines have wrought in the social and industrial orders. Computers, says Penzias, can actually do some jobs better, and, at a minimum, free individuals to follow new pursuits. Penzias' message? Machines are the product of man's imagination and they offer no threat to his independence. An exciting and candid look at a subject that is often bewildering but apparently here to stay. To be indexed. GRH.