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Offering a probing look into how modern technologies will affect the future of organizations, this book compares recent technology advances with growth spurts from the past and charts how organizations will be redefined in light of todaya s advances and other changes on the horizon.

Table of Contents
An Archaeology of Wonder.

The Age of Invention.

Creativity and Decay.

Tools that Talked.

Willing Cogs in the Machine?

Totally Free to Fly and Totally Free to Fall.

Escapes from the Here and Now.

Cyberia: First Steps.

Shared Nightmares, Shared Dreams.

Within these Walls.

The Rise and Demise of Nations.

Out Island Earth.

Tools of the Overlord.

Monoliths of Stone.

Of Networks and Cocoons.

The Future Mindset.

Epilogue.

Further Reading.

References and Notes to All Chapters.

Index.

Challenging Reality In Search of the Future

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      Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
      Published 6 March 1997
      ISBN-13 9780471970729
      978-0471970729
      ISBN-10 0471970727
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      Social forecasting, future studies

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Offering a probing look into how modern technologies will affect the future of organizations, this book compares recent technology advances with growth spurts from the past and charts how organizations will be redefined in light of todaya s advances and other changes on the horizon.

      Table of Contents
      An Archaeology of Wonder.

      The Age of Invention.

      Creativity and Decay.

      Tools that Talked.

      Willing Cogs in the Machine?

      Totally Free to Fly and Totally Free to Fall.

      Escapes from the Here and Now.

      Cyberia: First Steps.

      Shared Nightmares, Shared Dreams.

      Within these Walls.

      The Rise and Demise of Nations.

      Out Island Earth.

      Tools of the Overlord.

      Monoliths of Stone.

      Of Networks and Cocoons.

      The Future Mindset.

      Epilogue.

      Further Reading.

      References and Notes to All Chapters.

      Index.

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