Esther Dyson Books

Welcome to Release 2.1, Esther Dyson's fascinating exploration of life in our new digital society. In this provocative and timely book, Dyson - an entrepreneur, high-tech industry analyst, government adviser, and Net expert - examines the impact and implications of cyberspace, challenging us to think intelligently about its effect on every aspect of our private and public lives, from businesses to government to education. Written with an insider's knowledge and ready wit, and filled with anecdotes about the movers and shakers behind the products and politics of the computer industry, Release 2.1 presents us with a hard-hitting message: With the advent of the Internet, we all have both the opportunity and the obligation to shape the new rules we want to live by.

In a book scheduled to be published simultaneously by a dozen publishers around the world, an influential technology analyst offers a visionary study of the social and global issues raised by the burgeoning Internet. 150,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo.

Internet ; Computer ; Netzwerk ; Arbeit ; Philosophie ; Kommunikation