Tim May:

(Ironically, I brought up the new book, "The Winner Take All Society," at the last Cypherpunks meeting. No time to discuss it here, but it confirms my strong belief that we are heading for a economy in which a shrinking fraction of workers have really valuable things to contribute, and a growing fraction of the population does not. I had not recalled the authors, but Strick had a battery-powered laptop and Metricom wireless modem, and ran an Alta Vista search from where he was sitting: ROBERT FRANK & PHILIP COOK, The Winner-Take-All Society, New York: The Free Press.)

See also _The End of Work_ by Rifkin. It chronicles changing work patterns from agriculture through mass manufacturing and the service age on to an uncertain future. Lots of interesting numbers and "look what is already happening" statements. It also shows that the changes are inexorable, just as the decline in agriculture based on human and animal labor was. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steven Weller | "The Internet, of course, is more | than just a place to find pictures | of people having sex with dogs." stevenw@best.com | -- Time Magazine, 3 July 1995