Information technology has spurred extraordinary innovations and breakthroughs over the past half-century. And it continues today, as businesses migrate from the physical to the virtual, transforming the American workplace and commerce in the process. THE TRANSFORMATION AGE: HOW TO SURVIVE A TECHNOLOGY REVOLUTION WITH ROBERT X. CRINGELY introduces the people poised to take advantage of new information-based technologies in the next five to 10 years. Host Robert X. Cringley - writer, commentator and host of public television's Triumph of the Nerds, Electric Moneyand Nerd TV -steps inside this revolution to observe the risk-calculations and bets industry leaders make on the future, and how past innovations can influence the critical thinking of tomorrow.
