Michael Lewis - Next: The Future Just Happened
Release Date: July 01, 2001 |
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Michael Lewis - Next: The Future Just Happened - Michael Lewis reveals how much the Internet boom has encouraged great changes in the way we live, work, and think. He finds that we are in the midst of one of the greatest status revolutions in the history of the world, and the Internet turns out to be a weapon in the hands of revolutionaries. Old priesthoods--lawyers, investment gurus, professionals in general--are toppling right and left. In the new order of things, the amateur, or individual, is king: fourteen-year-old children manipulate the stock market and nineteen-year-olds take down the music industry. Deep, unseen forces are undermining all forms of collectivism, from the family to the mass market: one little black box has the power to end television as we know it, and another one?also attached to the television set?may dictate significant changes in our practice of democracy. Where does it all lead? And will we like where we end up?
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Key Information |
| Authors | Michael Lewis |
| Nonfiction Category | Business & Economics |
| Nonfiction Subcategory | • |
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Professional Reviews |
| Professional Reviews | Johnson, Steve, Washington Post Book World: "[D]elightful....The format is an ideal one for Lewis's formidable reporting skills and for his light touch with social theory. Unlike countless other attempts to map the new terrain of the digital world, Lewis's insights into the new social relations made possible by the Web will actually be read by a wider audience...NEXT is worth reading purely as a field study of the oft-discussed digital divide between parents and children.... Next will have you rooting for the kids." |
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Book Editions |
| Book Editions | Hardcover236July 01, 2001W W Norton & Co Inc9.5"(h) x 6.5"(w) x 1"(d), 1.15 lbs.9780393020373 |
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