Road Warriors

A dramatic behind-the-scenes account of the battle over America's technological & economic future. Offers a vivid, human-scale narrative of the warring personalities & strategies driving the Digital Revolution. Analyzes the real-world effects of the vast technological changes now whipping across the social & economic landscape. Takes readers on a gripping tour on perhaps the greatest business battle in history: the fight for supremacy in the new media & information markets of tomorrow. Analyzes the strategies & tactics necessary to ensure a company its place in this fast-changing competitive environment.

• Introduction: The Utopia Paradox
• Part One: Where the Roads Connect
1. The Fog of War
2. Accidental Genesis
3. The Rabbit in the Hat
• Part Two: A Kingdom of Riches
4. The Internet Reconsidered
5. Monster Experiment
6. Reach Out and Crush Someone
7. The Games People Play
8. Smart TV or a PC in Drag?
9. An Interesting Place to Go
• Part Three: Brave New World
10. Private Riches, Social Wealth
11. The Global Challenge
12. To Have and Have Not
• Appendix A: The Interview Triptych
• The Cowboy of Cable, John malone, CEO of TCI
• The Titan of Telephony, Ray Smith, CEO of Bell Atlantic
• The Government Regulator, Reed Hundt, Chair FCC
• Appendix B: A Twenty-First Century Salon

One of the few books about the new economy that doesn't sound like it was written by naive teenagers.