FUTURE SHOP

<p><strong>Product Description:</strong></p><p>For hundreds of years the marketplace has grown more complex and confusing for consumers to navigate. Published in 1992 long before the Internet became a household word. Future Shop argued that new information technologies combined with innovative public policies could help consumers overcome that confusion. A prescient manifesto of the coming revolution in e-commerce and the need for new public policies to fully realize its potential. This reprint of Future Shop includes a new preface.</p><p><strong>Editorial Reviews:</strong></p><p>Some day consumer information sources like those envisaged by Snider and Ziporyn will materialize. The more this book is read the sooner it will happen.</p><p><em> F.M. Scherer Professor of Business and Government Harvard University 1992.</em></p><p><br /> Snider and Ziporyn powerfully describe the glass highways of the future which will not only benefit consumers but will also provide fantastic opportunities for schools hospitals businesses and the average American as we enter the Information Age of the 21st century.</p><p><em> Conrad Burns Chair of U.S. Senate Communications Subcommittee 1992.</em></p><p><br /> <em>Future Shop</em> is a look into tomorrow's world of household/buying. It is full of surprises disconcerting ideas and useful information. I would think that forward-looking businesses would profit from it as much as forward-looking consumers.</p><p><em> Robert Heilbroner Professor of Economics New School for Social Research 1992.</em></p><p><br /> <em>Future Shop</em> describes a telecommunications age in which the foundations of our market economy will be radically different. The authors present a bold innovative manifesto for change. It's amazing that work on a subject that means so much to consumers has not appeared before.</p><p>Marvin Cetron author of <em>American Renaissance 1992.</em></p><p>The authors have documented and quantified what most of us know through personal experience; that our retail distribution system has become increasingly inefficient and is fostering confusion and abuse to the consumer. The enormous conservation of resources in our society that this book describes makes its contribution significant.</p><p><em> R.K. Snelling Executive Vice President of BellSouth Communications 1992.</em></p><p><br /> <em>Future Shop</em> is well-intentioned well-reasoned and intentionally provocative--Snider and Ziporyn deliver on their promise to remake the very idea of consumerism.</p><p><em> Jonathan Kirsch Los Angeles Times Book Review Feb. 12 1992:8</em></p><p>[J.H. Snider and Terra Ziporyn's] 'visionary manifesto' which aims to create a promotion-free society is impressively researched and daringly innovative.</p><p><em> Stuttaford Genevieve Publishers Weekly 1992 Vol. 239(4):56-7.</em></p><p>Snider and Ziporyn argue that growing consumer confusion cannot be alleviated by consumer protection agencies (which lack the resources) or by the mass media (which are often beholden to advertisers. The answer lies in a more advanced information infrastructure.... <em>Future Shop</em> is a thoughtful and provocative work about a subject that affects everyone.</p><p><em> Wagner Cynthia The Futurist 1992 Vol. 26(4):47.</em></p><p>Snider and Ziporyn write well. You will find many of their ideas novel many worthy of consideration and some persuasive.</p><p><em> Maynes E. Scott Review of Industrial Organization 1993 Vol. 8(2):640.</em></p><p>In 1992 J.H. Snider and Terra Ziporyn published <em>Future Shop</em>. Two years later Jeff Bezos founded Amazon. Fast forward 27 years and he's arguably the most successful entrepreneur in history while Americans rely on 'new technologies' to guide just about every purchase we make.</p><p><em> Mike Ross Kane Chief Executive Magazine March 1 2021.</em></p><p><strong>From the Author:</strong></p><p>The cover