"Computer scientist Rawlins...addresses his book to those 'who don't know much about computers,' painting cyber-history in broad strokes, then gazing rapturously into his silicon ball... Rawlins's breezy style and plentiful metaphors make for great quotability, and his predictions are far less farfetched than skeptics might think."

Publisher's Weekly, April 28, 1997

"This computer science professor...has stepped out onto the national stage to warn of the social impact of computers. Not that he's against them. But nobody is talking about their impact or planning for it. Our governmental, legal and social systems are still designed for a world without computers... We haven't established checks and balances for the new economic realities. What's worse, we don't even seem to be aware of the problem. That is why Rawlins has called attention to this alarming change, in, not one, but two books in the past year: Moths to the Flame and Slaves of the Machine."

Management Review, March, 1997

"We who must read computer books are satisfied if they provide information that we can use. We expect no more. Gregory Rawlins has combined a lively mind with a well-tuned ability to express himself to offer a book that's both informative and entertaining. It provided me with two sessions of late-night reading."

Roger Griffith, Editor, Soundview Executive Book Summaries

"This writer demystifies computers for those new to them by explaining how they work and are programmed, what they can and cannot do, whether they could ever think, and how we can expect them to develop in the future."

American Bookseller, February, 1997

"Slaves of the Machine is well done, its metaphors interesting and accurate. The book is a gentle knock on the door announcing the imminent arrival of a new kind of human offspring, as the made reaches parity with the born."

Hans Moravec, Principal Research Scientist, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

PRAISE FOR MOTHS TO THE FLAME




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