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Mobile Wave: How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything (2014)

by Michael Saylor(Favorite Author)

3.5 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0306822989 (ISBN13: 9780306822988)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

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review 1: Interviewed on Charlie Rose, Michael Saylor was fascinating, full of ideas about the future of the Information Revolution and the role of mobile technology as the tipping point in that revolution. He presented himself as someone with thoughtful and creative insights into the future world. And so, I read his book, The Mobile Wave.The book also captures Saylor's thoughtfulness, creativity, and interesting analogies. Here too he presents himself as a visionary with good insights into the future. But...Saylor's forward thinking ideas are buried in irrelevant historical digressions and unnecessary facts so the book is as much backward looking as forward thinking. Yes, historical context and the clever analogies are helpful, but why so much detail about the past? In the se... morection on the future of mobile technology in medicine, why say, "Hookworms can lay 30,000 eggs each day in the body of a child, and in some areas this has been found to cut that individual's future earning capacity by up to 43 percent"? On the future of mobile technology in education, why say, "The first known schools appeared in Sumer around 2500 B.C., in Shuruppak, home of Noah in the Mesopotamian flood legend"? And the book is jam packed with details like this; it's a Wikipedia on steroids gone wild.If this book were condensed to a forward looking magazine article, it would be compelling and insightful, like Saylor's Charlie Rose interview. As a book, it's a long (poorly edited) slog through the past and a disappointing ordeal.
review 2: if i had read this before i read Abundance by Peter Diamandis i'd probably like it more, but it mostly reiterates what he already said. basically everyone having a smartphone will level the playing field. the poorest people will have the same access to health care, education, market information, you name it as the richest. no more banking, no more money, no more crime, no more retail locations, no more print. it will all be grand. about 12 million people will lose their jobs since one person can now do the same work as 60, but it's ok because when we didn't have to each grow our own food we were freed up to do better things. too much history for me and this had a shockingly high number of grammatical errors. i like the tone of abundance better but this is not a bad book. less

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