The 500 Year Delta: What Happens After What Comes Next

by Jim Taylor, Watts Wacker, Howard Means

In the tradition of Alvin Toffler's Future Shock and John Naisbitt's Megatrends, The 500-Year Delta offers an enthralling glimpse of what businesses and individuals should expect as the five-hundred-year-old "Age of Reason" segues into the "Age of Possibility." According to visionary futurists Jim Taylor and Watts Wacker, we stand at not one but several crossroads-marked points of discontinuity between past and present. These

Genres: Nonfiction, Business

320 pages, Paperback

Published June 3, 1998

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[Phillip · Rating 4 out of 5]

The co-author is Watts Wacker so you know it must be good. A very entertaining book about the past, future and why stuff happens. Published in 1997, the book contemplates:

*The shift from reason-based to chaos-based logic
*The splintering of social, political, and economic organization
*The collapse of producer-controlled consumer markets
*The election of Obama

Okay,I made the last one up, but the first three are pretty darn good. Hard to argue they weren't accurately predicting our times.

Kind of a self-help book about how you can adjust. I recently chose the companion book "Drink Yourself Stupid" and find that I don't need any adjustment.

By the way, the boys are not down and cranky. They actually think good things are going to happen. Why not?