Megatrends: Information Explosion 2.0

摘要

This issue's theme, "future ready," got me to thinking: What "trend" books influenced my early career? Back then, I made a habit of reading what my users were reading. I was working in a large consulting firm at the time, and the "business book" trendwas exploding. I can still recall reading Alvin Toffler's Future Shock and The Third Wave and Faith Popcorn's Popcorn Report. Of course, I read Tom Peters' In Search of Excellence and anything by Peter Drucker. And I was lucky enough to meet or see manyof these authors at SLA conferences.