Don is one of the world’s leading authorities on innovation, media, and the economic and social impact of technology and advises business and government leaders around the world.
In 2011 Don was named one of the world's most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50. He has authored or co-authored 14 widely read books including the 1992 best seller Paradigm Shift. His 1995 hit Digital Economychanged thinking around the world about the transformational nature of the Internet and two years later he defined the Net Generation and the “digital divide” in Growing Up Digital.
His 2000 work, Digital Capital, introduced seminal ideas like “the business web” and was described by BusinessWeek as “pure enlightenment." Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything was the best selling management book in 2007 and translated into over 25 languages.
The Economist called his newest work Macrowikinomics: New Solutions for a Connected Planet a “Schumpeter-ian story of creative destruction” and the Huffington Post said the book is “nothing less than a game plan to fix a broken world.”
This was an interesting book, even though it was old when I got it. I believe things as they were foretold by this book were far exceeded by the time I actually read it. It was one of those books someone put into a box to give away while I was going through my degree program. It was written in 1998 and I obtained it by 2010. In terms of technology the moment you purchase anything it is already antiquated. By the time anything is designed on the drawing board it is minimally 2-5 years old. By the time it is developed and slated to be manufactured it is roughly 10 year old technology. I thought it was interesting at the time.
"Every Company will become an educational company or it will fail" - Don Tapscott -
It has occurred at google. This is a good point of view to make a strong but responsible company. But without the power of money and good mentality, it just an another dream. A step toward to the global open source economy.