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Valueware: Technology, Humanity and Organization

Valueware: Technology, Humanity and Organization

Hardcover

Series: Praeger Studies on the 21st Century

Technology & EngineeringGeneral ComputersGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 027596714X
ISBN13: 9780275967147
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Jun 30 1999
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.26
Height: 0.98 Width: 6.42 Depth: 9.53
Language: English

Against an emerging landscape of intranets, extranets, virtual communities, and virtual reality, this book highlights the dangers of individuals or organizations becoming technology-rich but value blind. Valueware also champions the evolution of a gentler mode of capitalism as just one of many hopes for a more caring and sustainable 21st century. After detailing the critical forces now driving the convergence of technology, humanity, and organization, Barnatt then balances a wide spectrum of value perspectives, including those of past and present management gurus, Internet pioneers, and Generation Xers.

Knowledge-empowered individuals and organizations are already beginning to learn the value of global interdependence over independence. Cutting-edge technologies and new social structures may also soon empower more relationship-rich markets, which begin to mediate human affiliation via money but in a gentler capitalist structure. Barnatt doesn't claim to predict the world of tomorrow. However, by detailing alternative millennial realities from which key future-shapers may choose, it instead champions future gazing as future shaping.

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