The following books are part of the database of books, magazine articles, newspaper stories and Internet sites that formed the underpinnings for this day in the series.
Life After Television: The Coming Transformation of Media and American Life, by George Gilder. 1994 Revised edition. How microprocessors and the telecommunications infrastructure are creating a new networked economy and obliterating our current notions of TV.
The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era, by Jeremy Rifkin. 1995. One of the most stimulating books of its kind, chock-full of statistics and facts. Rifkin's pessimistic view of economic trends diverges from the thrust of this project.
JobShift: How to Prosper in a Workplace Without Jobs, by William Bridges. 1994. This book develops the "end of the job" theory and makes historical analogies to the pre-job environment. It also gives practical advice about what individuals can do to prepare.
The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism, by Robert B. Reich. 1991. This book by the current U.S. Secretary of Labor was ahead of its time in explaining the evolution of the knowledge worker and the dangers of a possible secession by the affluent.
Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069, by William Strauss and Neil Howe. 1991. A highly original look at the interplay of four distinct types of generations that consistently arise throughout American history, with a forward spin on how those generations should align in the coming decades.
Post-Capitalist Society, by Peter Drucker. 1993. The well-known management guru's sweeping historical analysis of the changing economy. As he said in a recent video conference delivered to Minneapolis, in the next 10 years, we are going to reorganize every organization we have -- be it businesses, universities or government agencies.
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