description: One of the world's most insightful journalists argues that swiftly unfolding advances in telecommunications will effectively eliminate distance as a perceptible concept from our lives. She predicts that this "death of distance" between individuals and entities will become the single most important economic force to reshape society over the next half century. The Death of Distance reveals the ways-only now dimly imaginable-that the communications revolutions will tilt the balance between large and small, rich and poor, as it transforms decisions about home and work, notions of national borders, the institutions of education and government, trade patterns, and more. Among the author's more striking there will be greater economic rewards for those who promote or "boost" their information ahead of everybody else's; the world will work 24 hours a day on three shifts based on the time zones of the Americas, Europe, and the Far East; the design of the home and the office will be altered to accommodate the increasingly blurred lines between work and leisure; the strength of local cultures will be enforced, while a global culture will develop in parallel-dominated by the English language-based world on the Internet.
language: English
title: The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution Will Change Our Lives
titlecomplete: The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution Will Change Our Lives
publisher: McGraw-Hill