Valueware

Against an emerging landscape of intranets extranets virtual communities and virtual reality this book highlights the dangers of individuals or organizations becoming technology-rich but value blind. Valueware also champions the evolution of a gentler mode of capitalism as just one of many hopes for a more caring and sustainable 21st century. After detailing the critical forces now driving the convergence of technology humanity and organization Barnatt then balances a wide spectrum of value perspectives including those of past and present management gurus Internet pioneers and Generation Xers.Knowledge-empowered individuals and organizations are already beginning to learn the value of global interdependence over independence. Cutting-edge technologies and new social structures may also soon empower more relationship-rich markets which begin to mediate human affiliation via money but in a gentler capitalist structure. Barnatt doesn''t claim to predict the world of tomorrow. However by detailing alternative millennial realities from which key future-shapers may choose it instead champions future gazing as future shaping.