Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution Will Change Our Lives: Amazon.co.uk: Frances Cairncross: Books

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This text covers current and future changes in the telecommunications industry, and also aims to provide a broader, more hypothetical view of the implications of such developments.

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Frances Cairncross is a senior editor at The Economist. She is the author of Costing the Earth (HBS Press), and the winner of the first Reuter's - Alp Action media award.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Too optimistic, but a decent overview, 31 Jan 1999

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This book paints a bright, sunny picture of the Utopia that will be created by the spread of communications technology such as the Internet. Work will become more fun, governments will be forced to cut taxes, people will talk to each other more, and world peace and prosperity will soon follow. I don't buy it; the analysis is far too one-sided, and, while there will doubtless be benefits of increased communication, there will also be downsides (though it's probably impossible to say what they'll turn out to be) and it won't fix all the world's problems, as Cairncross seems to think.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Naive, simple-minded and utopic..., 9 Sep 1998

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This kind of book is likely to lead the reader in wrong and simplistic insights of what is going on. Yet the beginning offers a relevant overview of the evolution of communications, that is, the Telephone, the Television and the Internet. Consequently man can quite well understand that these three medias will merge in the future and that information will really overwelhm the customer. Nevertheless Frances Cairncross loses her relevance as soon as she tries dramatically to convince the reader of an happy end, a "global peace", where most people are freed from policy. But she does not speak about the power of money, the deep consequences of theses big corporations that she only touches on.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Impact of the Interactive Age, for Everyone, 19 Mar 1998

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This is an easy-to-read, interesting book for business people and others who want to know how the Interactive Age will change the world. Francis Cairncross, who writes in The Economist for people who think, has studied and thought a great deal, and it shows. Cairncross says that the improvements now being developed in telephony, television and the Internet will touch every single life within a few years. Fundamental changes in how we learn, get food, deal with friends, enemies and lovers, make money and pay for goods are definitely in the works. And that distance will no longer dictate how we communicate. This is not fantasy, this is the right stuff. Anyone who expects to be around longer than a very few years had better listen up.

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5.0 out of 5 stars What could happen in a world without borders
The Death of Distance Frances Cairncross presents a compelling and thought-provoking analysis of a rapidly shrinking world as she presents a story of a revolution - a... Read more

Published on 26 May 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars Thought provoking and ambitiously broad ranging!
This is an up-beat view about how technology will ultimately transform every aspect of life. Focusing on future trends, its chapters cover: the telephone; the television; the... Read more

Published on 22 Mar 1999

3.0 out of 5 stars A what may occur in the Info Age diary
The book is a good read if you are just beginning to learn about the Information Revolution. If you already know the author simply states the obvious: the Internet connects... Read more

Published on 16 Mar 1999

4.0 out of 5 stars Distance will die, individualism will not
Unlike the reader from Canada, I believe that Ms. Cairncross' assertion that distance is dying is quite accurate. Read more

Published on 16 Jan 1998

4.0 out of 5 stars Despite the author's promise, distance will not die.
Francis Cairncross's book The Death of Distance is the best of a series of new publications (and articles) insisting that the ongoing communication revolution will shape a... Read more

Published on 16 Dec 1997

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Insight on how the world will change
Most of us have some inkling of how the communications revolution might affect the way we work and play in the future. Read more

Published on 29 Nov 1997

5.0 out of 5 stars Thought-provoking overview of the global economy's future.
Ms. Cairncross has done an admirable job of reviewing the essential building blocks of the Communications Revolution. Read more

Published on 17 Oct 1997

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