The Fifth Generation, by Edward A. Feigenbaum and Pamela McCorduck (Addison-Wesley, 288 pp., $15.95)
IT has been argued that every age is a revolutionary age; but in most cases the “revolution” is merely a new coat of paint over the old institution. Not so with technology. We are in the early stages of three major technological revolutions that are irrevocably changing the direction of human destiny. They are in the fields of the space program, biotechnology, and, primus inter pares, the computer. Indeed, without the computer, the other two would still be theory instead of reality.
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