Masters of the Wired World

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Provocative and visionary, illuminating and agenda setting:
Today's masters of our Wired World speak about their visions of work and life In our Digital Age.
"Our goal is to ensure ttiat every country, every business, every individual, can benefit from tbe new digital economy - ensuring Uiat we can all be Masters of Uie Wired World." - the Rt Hon Tony Blair. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
"As each breathtaking new development brings us closer together in communication and in common cause - building a true global electronic village - we have the chance to spread a new prosperity, a new literacy, a new love of freedom and democracy, and even a new sense of community to the farthest regions of the worid." - Al Gore, Vice President, USA
"I have always maintained that the future should be of great interest to all of us. It's where most of us will have to live. The next millennium will be, I am sure, even more amazing than the last. As a species, we are... Tovább

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masters.
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Provocative and visionary, illuminating and agenda setting:
Today's masters of our Wired World speak about their visions of work and life In our Digital Age.
"Our goal is to ensure ttiat every country, every business, every individual, can benefit from tbe new digital economy - ensuring Uiat we can all be Masters of Uie Wired World." - the Rt Hon Tony Blair. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
"As each breathtaking new development brings us closer together in communication and in common cause - building a true global electronic village - we have the chance to spread a new prosperity, a new literacy, a new love of freedom and democracy, and even a new sense of community to the farthest regions of the worid." - Al Gore, Vice President, USA
"I have always maintained that the future should be of great interest to all of us. It's where most of us will have to live. The next millennium will be, I am sure, even more amazing than the last. As a species, we are 'hard-wired' to explore our environment and our imaginaUon. We should never underestimate the capacity of our own Ingenuity to take us by surprise." - Sir Arthur C. Clarke KBE
"A Wired World demands a complete re-think and maior re-construction of society from top to bottom. It is time for societies that can hurl so much energy and creativity into technological innovaUon to devote at least a fraction of the same resources to radically rethinking the obsolete economic theories of Left and Right alike, and their effect on socieUes all across ttie planet as we move into the next millennium." - Alvin Toffler
"The Wired World is Inevitably going to be something of an exploraUon. but exploring is at the heart of learning, and of changing and of growing. That is what I believe and this is what gives me hope. The worid I see emerging, with its looser organizations, has many threats and many dangers, but it should allow more people to stop pretending much eariier in their lives. If that is so, then the Wired World and Age of Unreason may become a better worid and an Age of Greatne^." - Charles Handy
"Thereare almost no aspects of economic and social life that remain untouched. The word 'revolution' is often misused. In Uie present case, it applies perfectly: we are cleariy in the middle of a true revolution - the information revolution - and we have to learn to live with it." - Edith Cresson, Member of the European Commission
"Government has to ask itself how it can hope to make an effective Impact In such a fast-moving, dynamic and unpredictable global maricet." - The Rt Hon Peter Mandelson, MP, Secretary of State for Trade & Industry, UK Government
"The on-line economy is one of the most far-reaching devolopments of our tiipe: its borderiess nature puts in question many of the fundamental premises on which political, legal and business decisions have been based in the past. We therefore need to develop a political vision to cope with the new dimension that Is given tpjiobalization." - Dr Martin Bangemann. Member of the European Commission
a new global economy is emerging that is fundamentally driven by two things - Information and images at heart, this revolution is not fundamentally a technological revolution at all - technology is simply what makes the revolution possible, as such it's a bridge, not a destination Films, television and increasingly the images and ideas transmitted across the Internet, shape attitudes, create conventions of style and behaviour, they reinforce or undermine the wider values of society." - David Puttnam CBE
" lust as lifts have changed the shape of buildings, and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of organizations, be they companies, nations or social structures." - Nicholas Negroponte, Director MIT Media Laboratory
-The application of electronic transmissions is !ust beginning to be felt. How and where we are educated, where and how we work and live our health-care systems, our shops, our commerce, our reading, our leisure, no part of human enterprise will be spared. Even our notions of sovereignty and governance could be profoundly affected." - Donald J. Johnston. Secretary General. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development . ¦
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Connectivity, liller apps, teleworking, e-commerce, virtuality, the Information Society We hear these words daily but what do they actually mean for our working lives, our social and civic responsibilities, our industries, and our business practices?
Here, for the first time, is what the key players in the Information Age are saying about the defining issues for our business, commercial, working and civic lives in the Global Information Society.
Masters of the Wired World gathers together original, thought-provoking short essays by the "digerati" - over 40 of the world's most important market movers, leading commentators, policy makers and government shapers - who directly influence work, business and life In the Digital Age.
Contents
• Foreword by the Rt Hon Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• Visions of file Wired World - Al Gore, Martin Bangemann, Alvin Toffler, Arthur C. Clarke
• The Global Information Infrastructure - Denis Gllhooly, Simon Olswang, Brian Kahin, Peter Cochrane
• The Market - David Potter, Jim Barksdale, John Patrick, Karel Van Miert
• Content-Will Wyatt, David Puttnam, Simon Murison-Bowie, Roberto Minio, Hugh Brett
• Technology - David Feeny, Robert Winter, Nathaniel Borenstein, Randall S. Hancock
• Electronic Commerce - Donald J. Johnston, Lee Stein, Deborah Hurley, Michael R. Nelson
• The Networked Economy - Charles Jonscher, Jeffrey Owens Michael Finley, Mark Radcliffe
• Wired Organizations - Peter Mandelson, James Martin, John Daniel, Harald Norvik
• Public Services - Edith Cresson, Chris Yapp, Glenn R. Jones
• People - Nicholas Negroponte, Charles Handy, Arne FjSirtoft
• Afterword by Marjorie Scardino, Chief Executive, Pearson Pic
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Anna Leer, Strategy Planner, Oxford Unlvarilty Preit
Anne Leer has worked In publishing, television and media for many years, Mer academic bacltground is muitidisciplinary (B,Sc,/MA/iVIBA), She is a specialist in strategy and multiple media management, In addition to her corporate role, she also acts as a senior adviser to governments and intergovernmental organizations on media and communications industries. She has particular expertise in the field of Intellectual property, media and telecommunication regulation, policy development for markets subject to globalization and industry convergence, strategic Issues to do with public service provision of broadcasting, education and culture, and business development in fast-changing media markets.
Anne Leer has extensive international experience working at a senior level In a highly competitive environment in the UK, Europe, Scandinavia and the US. She aiso has an interest in the emerging economies in Asia, China and Africa, in 1993 she joined Oxford University Press, a company with more than 500 years of history and with operations in 62 countries around the world.
Anne Leer is also on the British Library's Advisoiy Committee on Research and innovation. She is a frequent public speaker and aiso lectures at business schools and universities. She contributes articles regularly to the newspaper press as well as to trade journals. She is the author of several reports and books, most recently. Welcome to the Wired World, the companion volume to this title, also published by Financial Times Pitman Publishing.
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