The Fifth Generation: Artificial Intelligence and Japan's Computer Challenge to the World

Japan is now making plans for the fifth generation of computers which will enable them to establish and dominate a ''knowledge industry''. The authors explain the new knowledge technology and outline America's weak, almost nonexistent response to the Japanese challenge. Contents, abridged: It's not just the second computer revolution, it's the important one. The Japanese fifth general. The nations. The American response. Epilog, or it is hard to predict, especially the future. Index.