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Step aside, Bill Gates! Here comes today′s real technology guru and his totally original, laugh-out-loud New York Times bestseller that looks at the approaching new millennium and boldly predicts: more stupidity ahead.

In The Dilbert Principle and Dogbert′s Top Secret Management Handbook, Scott Adams skewered the absurdities of the corporate world. Now he takes the next logical step, turning his keen analytical focus on how human greed, stupidity and horniness will shape the future. Featuring the same irresistible amalgam of essays and cartoons that made Adams previous works so singularly entertaining, this uproariously funny, dead-on-target tome offers half-truthful, half-farcical predictions that push all of today′s hot buttons - from business and technology to society and government.

Children - they are 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.

Computers - Technology and homeliness will combine to form a powerful type of birth control.

In The Dilbert Principle and Dogbert′s Top Secret Management Handbook, Scott Adams skewered the absurdities of the corporate world. Now he takes the next logical step, turning his keen analytical focus on how human greed, stupidity and horniness will shape the future. Featuring the same irresistible amalgam of essays and cartoons that made Adams previous works so singularly entertaining, this uproariously

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #343830 in Books
• Published on: 1998-09-24
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

From Amazon.com
Move over, Faith Popcorn! Cartoonist Scott Adams is back in book form, and this time he gives Dilbert and his cronies a free hand to forecast the trends that just might drive business and society during the next millennium. In typical Adams fashion, The Dilbert Future: Thriving on Stupidity in the 21st Century serves up a series of laugh-out-loud predictions on technology, marketing, work, jobs, gender relations, and even the future of democracy and capitalism.

From Booklist
Adams is on a roll. His Dilbert cartoon strip now appears in 17 languages and is read by 150 million people, and his last two Dilbert collections promptly hit the best-seller list. Here Adams has Dilbert, his nerdish, put-upon alter ago, venture outside the world of the cubicle to take a look around, and he finds--SURPRISE!--that incompetence and foolishness are not limited to the workplace. Exploring a neighborhood that borders on that of Dave Barry, Adams draws hilariously absurdist conclusions from his peripatetic observations. His targets include genetically engineered children, the chaos theory, life on other planets, euthanasia, frequent flier programs, clothes, and bicycle seats. Although Adams admits that it is impossible to know the future because the unexpected usually happens, he also argues that we will always be able to depend on the existence of stupidity and its predictable effects. David Rouse

Wired
Dilberted. To be exploited and oppressed by your boss.

Customer Reviews

Brilliant. The smartest book I've ever read.
Scott Adams cannot be stopped! He will write brilliant books until his hands bleed from typing so much. This book will never get old...It also gives you great ways to insult in-duh-viduals without risk of physical harm. A great book for more of the intellectual mature people. Read this book from the index to the blank pages that have no real purpose in the back of the book. I also reccomend buying the Dilbert Complete Series DVD Set. Hey, $40 bucks for a funny and great show isn't that bad. READ DILBERT! READ DILBERT!

Mediocre
I love Scott Adams stuff, but to be honest this wasn't the best he could do.

It did strike my funny bone quite a few times, but it gets a little tiresome and silly. While it was quite funny, some of the humor seemed a bit strained.

I would recommend The Dilbert Principle or Dilbert: The Way of The Weasel over this one.

Overall a good read
I last read this book several years ago. I recently started to reread it. Overall it is a funny book which is still topical in many ways. But as a member of the "DNRC", I was extreamly disappointed with chapter 14. It was filled with ideas which could be paraphrased the following ways;

-ESP could be real because a woman was able to name five cards I picked out of a tarot deck, even if she did get the order wrong.
-Based on the results of an experiment which was reported in an article in Newsweek, it is possible that the present can change the past.
-Science will prove evolution isn't real and that it was all a misperception.
-Positive thinking can make things come true because of the implications of the chaos theory and of alternate realities.
-Gravity can't be proven so it might be more reasonable to believe everything is constantly doubling in size.

Apperantly it this was the only chapter in the book he meant to be taken seriously. His seriousness didn't stop him from coming across as an induhvidual who believed in things based on a mixture of select personal observations and on some articles about science in non-scientific magazines which he then took out of context.

There is hope though; chapter 14 was revised in later editions. He might have come up with more convincing reasons to believe any of the theories; or he might have scrapped them in favor of stronger theories.