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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0393020371
ISBN-13: 9780393020373
Jul 2001
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
236 pages
Language: English |
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Synopsis
How far will the Internet take us into the next generation of consuming, producing--even living? NEXT! examines the impact of the World Wide Web on how we interact, use knowledge, and respond to this phenomenon of virtuality. Lewis, author of LIAR'S POKER, offers several cautionary tales of online antics, from the New Jersey teen who made hundreds of thousands in online trades to the 15-year-old who served as the legal expert on Askme.com., Many of these essays on the Internet, including one about Jonathan Lebed, a 13-year-old day-trading wiz, were initially published in the New York Times Magazine. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.
| Size | | Length: | 236 pages | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 18.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Though eminently readable....There is nothing the least bit new or original about these observations....NEXT feels like a series of tourist snapshots, passed off as a photographic essays--entertaining, perhaps, but thoroughly random, subjective and amateurish."
New York Times - Michiko Kakutani (07/27/2001)
"[F]our essays that percolate with insight...."
Entertainment Weekly - Megan Harlan (07/27/2001)
"Timing the market, whether in stocks or megatrends, is a chancy game. Few can hope to win at it for long. Fortunately, Lewis the observer, alert to the family-room comedies of manners that play out under the economic headlines, gets as much space in the book as Lewis the prophet. Whether they represent a new world order or the latest bout of the old insanity, the pranks he so sharply depicts will still amuse."
New York Times Book Review - Walter Kim (07/29/2001)
"[A]n energetic pastiche of reportage and off-the-cuff social theory....At their sharpest, his dispatches bristle with keenly knowing observations tossed off like firecrackers from a passing car."
Village Voice - Julian Dibbell (07/30/2001)
"[D]elightful....The format is an ideal one for Lewis's formidable reporting skills and for his light touch with social theory. Unlike countless other attempts to map the new terrain of the digital world, Lewis's insights into the new social relations made possible by the Web will actually be read by a wider audience...NEXT is worth reading purely as a field study of the oft-discussed digital divide between parents and children.... Next will have you rooting for the kids."
Washington Post Book World - Steve Johnson (08/12/2001)
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