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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Alexander Bard , Jan Soderqvist , Jan SoderqvistPublisher: Pearson Education Limited Imprint: Reuters Dimensions: Width: 17.40cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.70cm Weight: 0.590kg ISBN: 9781903684290ISBN 10: 1903684293 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 07 May 2002 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: In Print  Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of Contents1. Technology: the motor of historical motion 2. Three Paradigms: feudalism - capitalism - informationalism 3. The Plurarchic Society: the end of the nation state and the crisis of democracy 4. In search of attention: information - propaganda - entertainment 5. The Netocrats and their worldview 6. Globalization: financial and cultural 7. The new biology and the ethics of the Netocracy 8. The death of man and the birth of the virtual subject 9. The network pyramids: the power hierachies of attentionalism 10. Sex and the new tribalism, virtual education and the inequality of the brains 11. Behind the firewalls: virtual revolutionaries and the civil wars of the NetocracyReviewsRead it for the reason business information company Reuters published it: to understand why power in your workplace and your world isn't where you thought. New Scientist Contains interesting insights (into the growing likelihood of populist violence among the displaced and dispossessed.) New Statesman An extraordinary book. Computer Weekly Digging deeper and wider than any previous effort into what the information revolution truly means, Netocracy is the must-read for anybody even remotely interested in what those kids out there are actually doing to us all with their gadgets. It's a bigger, more dramatic and very different change from what we had expected. Netocracy is the unsurpassable how and when of this whole revolution. Kjell A. Nordstrom and Jonas Ridderstrale, authors of Funky Business -- talent makes capital dance. He's seen the future. A renaissance man of many talents, Bard is either a genius or a madman. You decide The Times Magazine, July 2003 Alexander Bard, author of 80 hit singles in Scandinavia, is a record producer, Internet mogul, philosophy enthusiast, and much more. FTDynamo, Euro-Gurus Netocracy is a fresh take on the information revolution. Bard and Soderqvist's concepts are clear and meticulously explained...the book is a brave account of the challenges ahead. Mail & Guardian Online (South Africa) Read it for the reason business information company Reuters published it: to understand why power in your workplace and your world isn't where you thought. New Scientist Contains interesting insights (into the growing likelihood of populist violence among the displaced and dispossessed.) New Statesman An extraordinary book. Computer Weekly Digging deeper and wider than any previous effort into what the information revolution truly means, Netocracy is the must-read for anybody even remotely interested in what those kids out there are actually doing to us all with their gadgets. It's a bigger, more dramatic and very different change from what we had expected. Netocracy is the unsurpassable how and when of this whole revolution. Kjell A. Nordstrom and Jonas Ridderstrale, authors of Funky Business - talent makes capital dance. He's seen the future. A renaissance man of many talents, Bard is either a genius or a madman. You decide The Times Magazine, July 2003 Alexander Bard, author of 80 hit singles in Scandinavia, is a record producer, Internet mogul, philosophy enthusiast, and much more. FTDynamo, Euro-Gurus Netocracy is a fresh take on the information revolution. Bard and Soderqvist's concepts are clear and meticulously explained...the book is a brave account of the challenges ahead. Mail & Guardian Online (South Africa) Author InformationAlexander Bard is a lecturer at SpeakersNet, with clients including Ericsson and the Stockholm School of Economics. He is also a writer,sociologist, philosopher and TV talk show host. An internationally renowned record producer, artist and songwriter, he is a co-founder of Scandinavia's largest independent record company, Stockholm Records. Alexander is one of the true Internet pioneers; he co-founded a number of successful e-commerce ventures, including the widely celebrated interesting.org, and runs nine international networks. Jan Soderqvist is a writer, editor, TV producer and lecturer at SpeakersNet. He is the film critic at the Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet and a political columnist. After studying film in Los Angeles in the early 1980s Jan earned a BA in literature and worked in every media area imaginable. He has edited a number of prestigious magazines, and as a writer has covered everything from men's fashions and cooking trends to the Asian crisis and the revolution in info-technology. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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