The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution Is Changing our Lives Revised Edition

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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.

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"Goleman, Boyatzis and McKee have turned a difficult trick: attacking a tired subject in an invigorating way." -- USA TODAY, March 25, 2002.

"Valuable in this edition - new material added on what will be the big impact of the Internet this decade." -- The Economist, April 2001.

About the Author

Frances Cairncross is the Management Editor at The Economist. She works and resides in London, England.

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Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press; Revised Edition (March 1, 2001)
Language : English
Paperback : 320 pages
ISBN-10 : 157851438X
ISBN-13 : 978-1578514380
Item Weight : 1.15 pounds
Dimensions : 6.1 x 1 x 9.1 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,932,129 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #919 in Business Communication
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- #5,656 in Internet & Telecommunications

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A look into the future

Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2001

In this updated paperback edition of the 1997 original, Frances Cairncross of The Economist expounds the theory that, with the introduction of the Internet and new communications technologies, distance as a relevant factor in how we conduct our business and personal lives is becoming irrelevant. This, she claims, will be the single most important economic force shaping all of society over the next half century.
This revised version covers more topics than the original. It explores the rise and fall of the dot-com phenomenon, the spread of mobile telephones, the wave of hi-tech mergers, the lasting power of the new economy, trends in e-commerce, organizational restructuring to adapt to the Internet, the impact of patent law as it pertains to communications, and the democratizing effects of communications technology on worldwide societies as a whole.
Francis Cairncross writes eloquently and convincingly about the cataclysmic changes sweeping through our means of communication. She discusses how the consequences of such changes will tilt the balance between large and small, rich and poor, as they influence where companies locate, what kind of work people do, how governments raise revenue, which businesses succeed etc.
Amongst the most striking trends, she sees citizens with a greater freedom to locate anywhere, thus leaving governments to reduce tax burdens in an attempt to attract higher income-earners. She sees, too, the continuing rise of English as a global language in business and commerce. She foretells, too, of new opportunities and challenges we will face in a wireless world.
I disagree with those who claim that, just because we have the ability to do something, doesn't mean we will do it and change society. If people don't want mobile phones, why do they buy them? If people don't like the Internet, why do they use it? My own experience (Brit living in France, working in various European countries, employed by an American company) tells its own story. Twenty years ago, my situation would have been considered almost unique. Today it is commonplace. AND YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET !

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