The Dilbert Future: Thriving on Business Stupidity in the 21st Century by Scott Adams

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Step aside, Bill Gates! Here comes today?s real technology guru and his totally original, laugh-out-loud New York Times bestseller that looks at the approaching new millennium and boldly predicts: more stupidity ahead. In The Dilbert Principle and Dogbert?s Top Secret Management Handbook, Scott Adams skewered the absurdities of the corporate world. Now he takes the next logical step, turning his keen analytical focus on how human greed, stupidity and horniness will shape the future. Featuring the same irresistible amalgam of essays and cartoons that made Adams previous works so singularly entertaining, this uproariously funny, dead-on-target tome offers half-truthful, half-farcical predictions that push all of today?s hot buttons - from business and technology to society and government. Children - they are our future, so we?re pretty much hosed. Tip: Grab what you can while they?re still too little to stop us. Human Potential - we?ll finally learn to use the 90 percent of the brain we don?t use today, and find out that there wasn?t anything in that part. Computers - Technology and homeliness will combine to form a powerful type of birth control. In The Dilbert Principle and Dogbert?s Top Secret Management Handbook, Scott Adams skewered the absurdities of the corporate world. Now he takes the next logical step, turning his keen analytical focus on how human greed, stupidity and horniness will shape the future. Featuring the same irresistible amalgam of essays and cartoons that made Adams previous works so singularly entertaining, this uproariously Editorial Reviews About the Author Scott Adams is the creator of Dilbert, the comic strip that now appears in 1,550 newspapers worldwide. His first two hardcover business books, The Dilbert Principle and Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook, have sold more than two million copies and have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for a combined total of sixty weeks. Excerpt. ® Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter One How to Predict the Future Some people try to predict the future by assuming current trends will continue. This is a bad method. For example, if you applied that forecasting method to a puppy, you'd predict that the puppy would continue growing larger and larger until one day--in a fit of uncontrolled happiness--its wagging tail would destroy a major metropolitan area. But that rarely happens, thanks to the National Guard. The future never follows trends, because of three rules I have named after myself in order to puff up my importance. Adam's Rule of the Unexpected Something unexpected always happens to wreck any good trend. Here are some examples to prove my point: Good Trend Unexpected Bad Thing Computers allow us to work Computers generate 300 100 percent faster percent more work. Women get more political power.Women are as dumb as men. Popular music continues to get better.I get old. Adam's Rule of Self-Defeating Prophecies Whenever humans notice a bad trend, they try to change it. The prediction of doom causes people to do things differently and avoid the doom. Any doom that can be predicted won't happen. Here are some examples of dooms that people predicted and how the indomitable human spirit rose to the challenge and thwarted the prediction: Prediction of Doom Human Response Population will grow faster than Scientists realize you can call food supply.just about anything a meat patty. Petroleum reserves will be Scientists discover oil in their depleted in twenty years.own hair. Communism will spread to the All Communists become rest of the world.ballerinas and defect. I might have some of the details wrong; I'm working from memory here. But the point is that none of those predictions came true once we started worrying about them. That's the way it always works. Adam's Rule of Logical Limits All trends have logical limits. For example, computers continue to shrink in size, but that trend will stop as soon as you hear this report on CNN: This just in. A computer systems administrator sneezed, and his spray destroyed the entire military computing hardware of North America, leading to the conquest of the United States by Haitian bellhops. More on that later, but first our report on the healing powers of herbal tea. At that point, we'll say, Hey, maybe those computers were too small. That will be the end of the shrinking computer trend. If all trends end, what can we look at to predict the future? There are some things in life so consistent that they are like immutable laws of human nature. You can predict most of the future by looking at these immutable laws and applying logic. Immutable Laws of Human Nature Stupidity Selfishness Horniness Those are the things that will never change, no matter what else does. People don't change their basic nature, they just accumulate more stuff upon which they can apply their stupidity, selfishness, and horniness. From this perspective, the future isn't hard to predict. I realize that by telling you my secrets I'm not only opening my kimono, but I'm also doing jumping jacks in front of your picture window, if you catch my visual gist. But I'm not worried about you learning my secrets, because I'll always be one step ahead of you. Prediction Two In the future, you will wish I had never put the image in your head of me doing jumping jacks in an open kimono.

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Title: The Dilbert Future: Thriving on Business Stupidity in the 21st Century

Author(s):

  • Scott Adams

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Binding: Paperback

Published by: Harper Business: , 1998

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ISBN: 9780887309106 | 0887309100

288 pages. 6.12 x 0.72 x 8.12 inches

  • ENG- English
Book Condition: Good

Spine faded.

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