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How will members of human society interact with each other in the new millennium? Nothing less than that is the question that writer, teacher, scientist, and futurist Joseph Pelton takes on in this provocative, challenging new book. We have moved beyond the global village envisioned by Marshall McLuhan, and are living instead in an environment of rapid-fire, non-stop instantaneous global communicationthe e-sphere. The result is that we no longer receive information passively; in order to survive we must create and share itand it is this fact that defines the new non-linear paradigm of the world for Pelton's 21st Century. The impact will affect every aspect of our lives, from employment to education to sex to family life. The stakes in adapting successfully to this world are of the highest the survival of our species. All this he explores in clear, engaging prose, well buttressed by research and his lifetime of thought. A truly important, necessary study for people at all levels of today's organizations, and for those expecting to live in tomorrow's age of the World-wide Mind. Among the unique features of Pelton's book It offers new cyberspace oriented strategies for getting and kee

Author

Joseph N. Pelton

Publisher

Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781567203905

Subjects

Sociology, Literary Fiction, Science