The future has just happened.

Author: Michael Lewis
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: This book completely subverts the concepts of education, technology, business rules, and social relationships! It offers an unstable glimpse into the new future of capitalism. What kind of future world does the Internet, and everything it brings, represent? What is the success model for young people in the 21st century? Is the old path of "study well, then serve" still suitable for today's children? Let's take a look at the situation in the United States. Online prodigies have already surpassed financial analysts, legal experts, and computer experts. The internet era has created America's prodigies—where are China's prodigies? One 15-year-old American boy became a stock trading expert through the internet; another 15-year-old boy became a famous online legal consultant; a 20-year-old youth wrote software for free music downloads by netizens; a declining rock band in the UK was revitalized by the internet, gaining more fans; two Silicon Valley engineers in the U.S. invented a TV set-top box, which fiercely impacted the media, advertising, and entertainment industries, and will make the Gallup poll a thing of the past. After years of research and visits to various places in the U.S. and the U.K., the author, with vivid writing, presents these real stories to the world and reveals: the internet storm represents not just a major advancement in human technology, but it is also changing the way society operates and people's values. The future is no longer in the traditional sense. The next generation has already entered every aspect of human existence. Where will all this lead us? Will we dislike the final outcome?