Reviews for Prosperity in the Information Age Creating Value With Technology from Mailrooms to Boardrooms

The average rating for Prosperity in the Information Age Creating Value With Technology from Mailrooms to Boardrooms based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-11-07 00:00:00 Jeffrey Scott THIS BOOK WAS SO MUCH FUN! "Wait Dessi seriously, are you calling a book trying to look scientifically at a made up world that is obviously going to prove how silly and nonsensical and impossible that world is, *fun*?" HECK YES. See, Cavelos is a huge nerd big Star Wars fan. So against what you might think, this book doesn't go through Star Wars point by point just to say "in conclusion, this would never happen". She considers many expert arguments, including her own, to explain why something would be likely to happen or not, and what conditions would be necessary for it. Nothing is deemed impossible. Maybe that's overly optimistic in the future of science as we know it, like some readers suggest, but shouldn't science be overly optimistic? Of course, the book is heavy on science, but even if I didn't fully understand some concepts, it still felt easy to read. And fun - did I say it was fun? The thing for me was, I like science, but I'm still a lay person and I don't spend enough time reading up on scientific developments. This book, using something fictional I enjoy, let me in on a lot of real life information I didn't know about - and it also reminded me just how creative science is, how creative it *needs* to be, by default. Since this book dates from 1999, I really would love an updated version from this author, both to include more recent scientific discoveries and the new information about the GFFA we've received since then (the book was written before TPM was released, although the author still managed to include TPM in some of the chapters. Yes, she tackled the midichlorians question!) I only take half a star back for some spelling mistakes - guess the editor was not a SW fan.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-08-17 00:00:00 Craig Morrison Well, you can't blame a book for being written too soon. Everything about this book is good from the concept to the research to the presentation of information. But despite its only being ten or so years old, so much of it is already invalid - we already have walking bipedal robots (see Asimo) and our understanding of much of physics is changing by the minute, as well as future-thinking perspectives on space travel. But like I said, you can't blame a book for being written too soon. And even though the afterward does manage to squeeze in those god forsaken midi-chlorians, I'd recommend this book to any science-seeking Star Wars fan with the caveat that they do their own research as well since so much has changed since the book's publication.