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Title: Digerati: Encounters With the Cyber Elite by John Brockman ISBN: 1-888869-04-6 Publisher: Hardwired Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (6 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Just a great new word
Comment: Yes, I just like the book title and the new word "digerati".

Rating: 1
Summary: Digerati: An intellectual vacuum?
Comment: I happened to check the book out from the library, so I am happy to say I did not waste any money on it. Some books are readable and interesting. Other books may be readable and boring. Unfortunately this book is unreadable, owing to an idiotic typography that acts as a constant visual hiccup, so the issue of interest or boredom is barely relevant. From the few pages I did go through before giving up in disgust -- and with a headache -- I can only say that rarely have I read someone so ignorant of culture, so poor in intellect, and having so much pretensions to a high brow culture. Maybe Brockman thinks that it brushes off on him just by rubbing shoulders with some more or less "famous" people. In his case it clearly does not.

Bottom line - unreadable, empty, and pretentious.

Rating: 5
Summary: Disappointing and short-sighted
Comment: ~I was truely hoping this book was going to give some compliments most of the book goes on about how revolutionary things should be while almost all (bar one or two) seem to think the whole world and Internet consists of purely American citizens and that American rights should be used on the Internet and therefore applied to the rest of the world, followed by dribbling on about context and content in such boring terms it was difficult to stay awake.

The book also consists of more than a few journalists and analysts whom, after all, had~ such great ideas and visions would be sitting at the top of a large company and not speculating about whats going on.

If this is the best ideas and visions the