{"product_id":"valueware-technology-humanity-and-organization-9780275967154","title":"Valueware: Technology, Humanity and Organization","description":"\u003cp\u003eAgainst an emerging landscape of intranets, extranets, virtual communities, and virtual reality, this book highlights the dangers of individuals or organizations becoming technology-rich but value blind. Valueware also champions the evolution of a gentler mode of capitalism as just one of many hopes for a more caring and sustainable 21st century. After detailing the critical forces now driving the convergence of technology, humanity, and organization, Barnatt then balances a wide spectrum of value perspectives, including those of past and present management gurus, Internet pioneers, and Generation Xers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKnowledge-empowered individuals and organizations are already beginning to learn the value of global interdependence over independence. Cutting-edge technologies and new social structures may also soon empower more relationship-rich markets, which begin to mediate human affiliation via money but in a gentler capitalist structure. Barnatt doesn't claim to predict the world of tomorrow. However, by detailing alternative millennial realities from which key future-shapers may choose, it instead champions future gazing as future shaping.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHRISTOPHER BARNATT is an author, futurist, and lecturer in organizational behaviour, computers, and management at the University of Nottingham, UK. \u003ci\u003eValueware\u003c\/i\u003e concludes the Future Trilogy he commenced with \u003ci\u003eCyber Business\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eChallenging Reality\u003c\/i\u003e, and is his fifth text concerning technology, humanity, and organizations.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Praeger","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50477249691922,"sku":"9780275967154","price":51.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_87f41e2f-cddd-4984-ac5a-14d4589885ad.jpg?v=1730260644","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/valueware-technology-humanity-and-organization-9780275967154","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}