Wish you were here; Modern communications.(Books and Arts)(Review)
Economist (US), The, April, 2001
THE DEATH OF DISTANCE 2.0: HOW THE COMMUNICATIONS REVOLUTION WILL CHANGE OUR LIVES.
THIS is an update of "The Death of Distance", the author's wide-ranging review of the impact of the communications revolution on work and play. Written in 1997, the earlier book missed the wild excitement (and the subsequent disappointment) that the Internet engendered in the closing years of the 20th century.
Particularly valuable in this edition is the new material that Frances Cairncross, the management editor at The Economist, has added on what she (rightly) says will be the big impact of the Internet in this decade: "on existing companies, revolutionising the way they do business". She cites the example of Cisco Systems, which reckons it saved itself 250,000...
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