Next (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Michael Lewis
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Technology and current affairs
- Time of Work: The 1990’s to the present
- Setting: The United States and Great Britain
- Principal Characters: Jonathan Lebed, Marcus Arnold, Daniel Sheldon, Justin Frankel
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs, Science and technology
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Twentieth century, 1990’s, Stocks, Information science or systems, Technology, Computers, Great Britain, Internet, Stock exchange, Markets
- Locales: United States, Great Britain
Michael Lewis’s book Next explores the types and depth of changes that the spread of computer technology—especially the Internet—has brought to society. Mainly drawing on interviews of teenage boys who were deeply involved in the computer culture, Lewis comes to conclusions that have wide implications for society’s future.
In Lewis’s view, society and its paid seers were looking at the Internet in the wrong way, concentrating on its seemingly endless ability to create wealth while ignoring its social effects. Although the dot-com-fueled explosion of wealth...
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