A book better that should have been a series of news pieces. While Rushkoff certainly makes some great points he got caught in the wave of his own passion.

At some point before I got to p. 50 I had a very distinct picture of the author being a really cranky old man railing against many of the results of 21st Century tech boom. When I saw his pic on the book jacket I had to completely redraw my mental model of him. After the first hundred pages I had to skim forward to try to find something of value. At that point I only read about 10 more pages of the 150+ remaining.

The main issue I had with the book was that he presented many issues but he no ideas for solutions - which had the effect of making almost the entire book just one man's rhetoric - albeit sincere.

I gave this a 5/10 simply for the ideas he brings up.

-tpl