A provocative contribution to our understanding of this turbulent period of human evolution. The authors discuss the history of technological development, its likely future trajectory, and the imperatives driving human effort and imagination. Although the technological revolution seems, in a few short years, to have infiltrated every aspect of our lives, the authors of this book dispute the accepted wisdom that we are living in a Digital Age. They argue that the digital paradigm is absolutely inadequate for representing the continuous reality of life.