ICT Futures (PDF)

Editor Biographies. List of Contributors. Foreword. Introduction. Part One: People and Technology. 1. Predicting the Socio-technical Future (and Other Myths) (Ben Anderson and Paul Stoneman). 2. Social Networks, Social Computing and Knowledge Management (Nicholas J. Kings, John Davies, David Verrill, Sinan Aral, Erik Brynjolfsson and Marshall van Alstyne). 3. Device Futures (Jonathan Mitchener). 4. Online Trust and Customer Power: The Emergence of Customer Advocacy (Glen L. Urban). Part Two: Building the Infrastructure. 5. The Semantic Web - From Vision to Reality (Paul Warren and John Davies). 6. Flexible ICT Infrastructure (Mike Fisher and Paul McKee). 7. Achieving Security in Enterprise IT (Theo Dimitrakos and Ivan Djordjevic). 8. The Future All Optical Network - Why We Need It and How We Get There (David Payne). 9. End-to-End Service Level Agreements for Complex ICT Solutions (John Wittgreffe, Mark Dames, Jon Clark and James McDonald). 10. Mobility and ICT (Richard Dennis and Dave Wisely). 11. Pervasive Computing (David Heatley, George Bilchev and Richard Tateson). 12. Artificial Intelligence Comes of Age (Simon Thompson). Part Three: Applying Technology. 13. Healthcare (Chris Wroe, Paul Garner and Janette Bennett). 14. Supply Chain Management in the Retail Sector (Edgar E. Blanco and Chris Caplice). 15. Technology Innovation in Global Financial Markets (Lesley Gavin) 16. Technology and Law: The Not So Odd Couple (Marta Poblet, Pompeu Casanovas and Richard Benjamins). Part Four: Final Words. 17. Over the Horizon (Ian Pearson). 18. Conclusions (Paul Warren, John Davies and David Brown). Index.

Paul Warren works within the IT Futures Centre at BT. He is
currently Project Director of ACTIVE (href="http://www.active-project.eu/">http://www.active-project.eu),
a European project in the area of collaborative knowledge
management. recent previous roles have been in the areas of
service-oriented infrastructure and semantic technologies - both at
the forefront of developments in ICT. At an earlier stage in his
career, Paul worked on technology strategy and technology
foresight,investigating areas as diverse as eBusiness and novel
forms of computing. Paul has published widely on knowledge
management, semantic technologies and technology foresight. Paul
holds a degree in Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University and
a MSc in Electronics from Southampton University. Paul can be
contacted at href="mailto:paul.w.warren@bt.com">paul.w.warren@bt.com.

Dr John Davies Leads the Next Generation Web research
group within the IT Futures Centre at BT. Current interests centre
around the application of semantic web and Web 2.0 technology to
knowledge management, business intelligence, information
integration and service-oriented environments. John is chairman of
the European many papers and books in the area of semantic
technology and its business applications, web-based information
management and knowledge management; and has served on the program
committee of numerous conferences in these areas. He is a Fellow of
the British Computer Society and a Chartered Engineer. Earlier
research at BT let to the development of a set of knowledge
management tools which are the subject of a number of patents.
These tools ere spun out of Bt and are now marketed by Infonic Ltd,
of which John is Group Technical Advisor.John received the BT
Technology Award for Technology Entrepreneurship for his
contribution to the Creation of Infonic. John can be contacted at
href="mailto:john.nj.davies@bt.com">john.nj.davies@bt.com.

David Brown is Head of the Foresight

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