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Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013
ISBN 10: 1492252840ISBN 13: 9781492252849
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012
ISBN 10: 1481176889ISBN 13: 9781481176880
Seller: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, United Kingdom
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Published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012
ISBN 10: 1481176889ISBN 13: 9781481176880
Seller: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, United Kingdom
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Published by Harper Business, 1998
ISBN 10: 0887309100ISBN 13: 9780887309106
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, New Zealand
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Paperback. Condition: Good. 288 pages. Spine faded.Step aside, Bill Gates! Here comes tod ay?s real technology guru and his totally original, laugh-out-lou d New York Times bestseller that looks at the approaching new mil lennium and boldly predicts: more stupidity ahead. In The Dilber t Principle and Dogbert?s Top Secret Management Handbook, Scott A dams skewered the absurdities of the corporate world. Now he take s the next logical step, turning his keen analytical focus on how human greed, stupidity and horniness will shape the future. Feat uring the same irresistible amalgam of essays and cartoons that m ade Adams previous works so singularly entertaining, this uproari ously funny, dead-on-target tome offers half-truthful, half-farci cal predictions that push all of today?s hot buttons - from busin ess and technology to society and government. Children - they ar e our future, so we?re pretty much hosed. Tip: Grab what you can while they?re still too little to stop us. Human Potential - we? ll finally learn to use the 90 percent of the brain we don?t use today, and find out that there wasn?t anything in that part. Com puters - Technology and homeliness will combine to form a powerfu l type of birth control. In The Dilbert Principle and Dogbert?s Top Secret Management Handbook, Scott Adams skewered the absurdit ies of the corporate world. Now he takes the next logical step, t urning his keen analytical focus on how human greed, stupidity an d horniness will shape the future. Featuring the same irresistibl e amalgam of essays and cartoons that made Adams previous works s o singularly entertaining, this uproariously Editorial Reviews About the Author Scott Adams is the creator of Dilbert, the comic strip that now appears in 1,550 newspapers worldwide. His first two hardcover business books, The Dilbert Principle and Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook, have sold more than two million copies and have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list fo r a combined total of sixty weeks. Excerpt. ® Reprinted by permi ssion. All rights reserved. Chapter One How to Predict the Futu re Some people try to predict the future by assuming current tre nds will continue. This is a bad method. For example, if you appl ied that forecasting method to a puppy, you'd predict that the pu ppy would continue growing larger and larger until one day--in a fit of uncontrolled happiness--its wagging tail would destroy a m ajor metropolitan area. But that rarely happens, thanks to the Na tional Guard. The future never follows trends, because of three rules I have named after myself in order to puff up my importanc e. Adam's Rule of the Unexpected Something unexpected always happens to wreck any good trend. Here are some examples to prove my point: Good Trend Unexpected Bad Thing Computers allow us to work Computers generate 300 100 percent faster percent more w ork. Women get more political power.Women are as dumb as men. Popular music continues to get better.I get old. Adam's Rule o f Self-Defeating Prophecies Whenever humans notice a bad trend, they try to change it. The prediction of doom causes people to d o things differently and avoid the doom. Any doom that can be pre dicted won't happen. Here are some examples of dooms that peopl e predicted and how the indomitable human spirit rose to the chal lenge and thwarted the prediction: Prediction of Doom Human Res ponse Population will grow faster than Scientists realize you c an call food supply.just about anything a meat patty. Petroleum reserves will be Scientists discover oil in their depleted in tw enty years.own hair. Communism will spread to the All Communist s become rest of the world.ballerinas and defect. I might have some of the details wrong; I'm working from memory here. But the point is that none of those predictions came true once we starte d worrying about them. That's the way it always works. Adam's R ule of Logical Limits All trends have logical limit.