The death of distance : how the communications revolution will change our lives / Frances Cairncross
- Bib ID:
- 129608
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Cairncross, Frances
- Description:
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- Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, 1997
- xvi, 303 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0875848060
- 8449306264
- Summary:
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Geography, borders, time zones - all are rapidly becoming irrelevant to the way we conduct our business and personal lives, courtesy of the communications revolution. According to renowned Economist journalist Frances Cairncross, this "death of distance" will be the single most important economic force shaping all of society over the next half century. In her new book, Cairncross provides a trendspotter's guide to thriving in the new millennium.
Friends, colleagues, and customers could easily be anywhere - around the corner or around the world - and the new ways of communicating will effectively wipe out distance as a cost factor, indeed as a perceptible concept from our lives. Cairncross helps us to recognize the patterns and seize the opportunities in these early days of the death of distance. She describes the ways, now only dimly imaginable, that telecommunications and our altered perception of distance will transform relationships between countries and citizens, companies and employees, parents and children.
- Full contents:
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- The Trendspotter's Guide to New Communications
- 1. The Communications Revolution
- 2. The Telephone
- 3. The Television
- 4. The Internet
- 5. Commerce and Companies
- 6. Competition, Concentration, and Monopoly
- 7. Policing the Electronic World
- 8. The Economy
- 9. Society, Culture, and the Individual
- 10. Government and the Nation State.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-294) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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