Publisher's Synopsis
Continuing the trend-watching of "Technology 2001", in which Derek Leebaert and his contributors discussed the technologies that may well define the computing and communication environment that lies ahead, "The Future of Software" assembles the observations of leading computer scientists, strategists and planners, this time tackling the subject of software development.;Despite advances in computing power, Leebaert and the other contributors see as the biggest challenge for the future the development of software that can fully exploit the computer's ever-increasing capabilities. Each author addresses a particular aspect of software, examining how various developments and applications should transform the way we think about and use computers as we enter the next millennium. The topics include software's history and future, software standardization, workgroup computing, end-user programming, the Japanese software industry, and software and the law.
