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DECADES HENCE, THE PHENOMENA WE CALL GLOBALIZATION WILL BE SEEN AS CONSEQUENCE, NOT CAUSE, OF THE IMMENSE CHANGES THE WORLD IS UNDERGOING. HISTORIANS WILL INSTEAD CALL THIS ERA--DATING ROUGHLY FROM 1990--THE INFORMATION REVOLUTION. THEY WILL SEE THAT LIKE ITS TECHNOLOGICAL FORBEAR, THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, THIS REVOLUTION ALSO LED TO FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES IN GOVERNANCE, ECONOMICS, AND SOCIETY; BUT MUCH, MUCH FASTER. THE POWER OF THE INFORMATION REVOLUTION IS IN ITS CAPACITY TO ALTER RELATIONSHIPS AND TO BLUR, REDRAW, OR ERASE BOUNDARIES IN BOTH TIME AND SPACE. "MIDDLEMEN" SUCH AS NATION STATES AND GOVERNMENTS ARE LIKELY TO WANE IN THE FACE OF NEW CHANNELS OF INTERACTION.

"Today, it's hard to imagine life without smartphones and the internet. But those technologies weren't around 50 years ago. Between 1950 and 2001, the development of technology changed the world. Not only did it revolutionize the way humans communicate and share information, it changed the world's economy. This time became known as the Information Revolution"--

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Import Dates in the History of the Information Revolution -- Introduction: The Universal Brain -- Chapter One: Building a Better Calculator -- Chapter Two: Kicking Off the Digital Revolution -- Chapter Three: The Information Superhighway -- Chapter Four: The Open Sharing of Information -- Chapter Five: Web 2.0 -- Notes -- Glossary -- For More Information -- Index -- Picture Credits -- About the Author -- Back Cover