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Choice Review
The media frenzy over the potential for commercialization of the Internet has created many viewpoints and a great deal of hyperbole in the discussions. The exaggerated claims both positive and negative have left most casual consumers in a quandary about whom and what to believe. The authors of this book address one of the most important components of cyberspace architecture: the individual players with all their foibles and idiosyncrasies. The individuals providing the leadership and vision for the businesses that drive the development of cyberspace are the most critical in predicting the future of the medium for delivery of entertainment, business, and information. Too many other authors dwell on the narrow and less critical technical aspects of the emerging market and delivery systems. A good complement to Clifford Stoll's Silicon Snake Oil, Second Thoughts on the Information Highway (CH, Dec'95), a less than enthusiastic view of the potential of the information superhighway, this book would be good supplemental reading for students of management information systems. General readers; undergraduate and graduate students. N. J. Johnson Metropolitan State University
Library Journal Review
Unlike books that hype the national information superhighway (e.g., Nicholas Negroponte's Being Digital, LJ 2/15/95) or criticize it (e.g., Clifford Stoll's Silicon Snake Oil, LJ 3/1/95), this work presents a balanced, comprehensive account of the benefits and problems associated with the digital revolution. Burstein (Turning the Tables, LJ 1/93) and Kline, an editor of Wired magazine, conducted over 100 interviews with industry leaders in computers and communications, technology visionaries, and policy experts, some of which are recorded in appendixes. The authors offer chapters on the Internet, virtual reality, the usability of computer products, the gap between information "haves" and "have nots," the global challenge, and promoting competition among companies in computers and communications. The authors pay much attention to the contest for supremacy in the lucrative information markets of tomorrow. This readable and informative book belongs in all libraries.-Leonard Grundt, Nassau Community Coll. Lib., Garden City, N.Y. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
