The 500-year delta

Jim Taylor and Watts Wacker provide tested strategies to help companies and individuals reset their course toward an unpredictable future, offering new models to accommodate the increasing chaos of everyday life. Here, too, is the path that will ensure safe passage from our own times to the soon-to-be-upon-us "Age of Possibility." The 500-Year Delta ultimately is about the shifts of perception needed to prosper in a future that is fundamentally, unrecognizably different.

It is about surviving and thriving in an economy inhabited by two kinds of workers: owners and temps - in a marketplace where customers must literally be bought, one at a time, and where mass merchandising utterly ceases to exist. It is a world, in short, where borders - political, economic, and technological - simply disappear.