| The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution Is Changing Our Lives Contributor(s): Cairncross, Frances (Author) |
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ISBN: 157851438X ISBN-13: 9781578514380 Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press OUR PRICE: $16.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2001 Annotation: One of the world's most insightful journalists describes how the swiftly unfolding advances in telecommunications will effectively eliminate distance as a perceptible concept from our lives. First published in 1997, this volume--now updated--builds on two sweeping surveys with 50 percent more new data, fresh analysis, and new company examples. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Information Technology - Technology & Engineering | Telecommunications - Computers | Social Aspects |
| Dewey: 303.483 |
| LCCN: 2001016551 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.15 lbs) 317 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is the corporate strategist's trendspotting guide to the new economy, outlining how advances in telecommunications are creating the single most important economic force to affect human society in the next half-century. The book offers 50% more new data, fresh analysis and new company examples offer a look at the economic landscape ahead in the wake of wireless. There is a shift of content, away from telephones and television to the Internet, which has emerged as an essential part of any company and absorbed the first two technologies. No firm will be an Internet company because every firm will be an Internet company, just as every firm is a telephone or a media company. |
