The Weightless World: Strategies for Managing the Digital Economy (Obex Series)

The Weightless World is the first book to map an economic world that hasbeen turned upside down by digital technology and global business. How will ourcareers, businesses, and governments change in a world where bytes are the onlycurrency and where the goods that shape our lives--global financial transactions, computer code, and cyberspace commerce--literally have no weight? Addressing suchproblems as economic inequity and unemployment, Diane Coyle calls on individuals andgovernments to develop a new politics of weightlessness so that the economicbenefits can be shared fairly. She proposes the creation of a radical center as theway to a new era of human creativity and economic prosperity.