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The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society

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Drucker shares so much knowledge about the early to mid 20th century global economic situation. He predicts the coming era of information technology. He suggests our advanced economies must shift to depend on knowledge work rather than industrial might. He explains why barriers to trade must fall in order for the most productive companies/countries to thrive. The Government's role diminishes as multinational corporations grow. Isolationism and protectionism hurt an economy in the long run. There are great concepts explained in this book, but it is like drinking from a fire hose. I needed to go through it twice, and will probably make a third attempt in the next few years.

I read this book many years ago and loved it. I remember Drucker's prophetic comments that a computer didn't make a revolution; you have to have an interlocking network to change people's lives. Electricity, for example, was much more than a light bulb; it was a network that linked people's homes to a source of electricity. I found that insightful and have always wanted to go back and reread Drucker's lucid discussion and see how much of it has "played out."

Sadly, this book is a sloppy-looking photograph of the original and the cover is ugly. I don't know if the cover picture is supposed to be clouds or a map of something. Perhaps I should have sought an original.

Today when we almost fumble to keep ourselves running behind the rapid change this is something helpful.