Part I: Impact of the superhighways -- Information superhighways -- The new barbarians -- Globalization and localization -- Part II: Work and employment -- Where do we work? Do we work? -- Knowledge workers versus service workers -- Whom do we work for? and what is work anyway? -- Part III: Assault on the status quo -- Limits to taxation? -- The end of liberal democracy? -- Part IV: Transition -- An age of rage -- Corrupting the old order -- Attitudes toward crime -- Part V: Recognizing the new order -- New rituals for old -- Altruism: who cares? -- Part VI: The winners -- The making of a new barbarian -- Mutation of the nation-state -- The flight of the information rich -- Part VII: How to become a winner -- Winning through: a strategy for survival and success.
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Regards information technology as a seed for a new society in which the winners in the knowledge economy will construct their own 'smart regions' founded on libertarian principles and enlightened self-interest. The losers, however, face a bleak future. The three evils of religion, ethnicity and socialism will prey on the economic insecurity of the masses, as transnational businesses roam the globe in search of ever cheaper labor. [back cover].