Future Consumer.com: The webolution of shopping to 2010 - Hardcover

Feather, Frank

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1841121673 ISBN 13: 9781841121673

Publisher: Capstone, 2001

Synopsis

This is the first e-business book to focus exclusively on the consumer. Renowned futurist Frank Feather tells us what people want to buy, and where, and how they want to buy it. By 2010 the Internet will be the channel for 31 percent of consumer spending. The headspinning 'Webolution' will return to the workplace, the learning space and the market place to the home. In the resulting globalised high speed society, we will carry the Internet with us wherever we go. Future Consumer.com provides you with invaluable knowledge that will put you and your business ahead of the competition.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"There is plenty to argue with in this book and plenty to stimulate your thinking about how the Net is changing commerce and the world."
-Don Tapscott, best-selling authr of The Digital Economy and Growing Up Digital; co-author of Digital Capital.
By 2010, the Internet will gobble up 31% of consumer spending, leaving most brick-and-mortar retailers in rubble.
The head-spinning Internet Revolution, or "Webolution" as renowned futurist Frank Feather calls it, will reverse virtually everything the Industrial Revolution put into place, returning the workplace, the learning space and the marketplace to the home.
In the resulting globalized, high-speed society, we will talk to our appliances and automobiles - and they'll talk back. We'll carry the Internet with us whenever we go. Families will incorporate. Paper money will become a thing of the past.
These are just a few of the changes resulting from the Webolution. It will rock our world, utterly transforming life and commerce. And its rewards will accrue fastest to those who embrace it first. FutureConsumer.com provides you with invaluable knowledge that will put you and your business ahead of the competition, such as:

• the one Web strategy that every organization absolutely must pursue
• why some Web sites succeed and why others fail
• solid forecasts of online retail sales to 2010 - six years further out than any published elsewhere - in 12 product categories
• what will be the top 50 retail Web sites in 2010
• astute analyses of tends in work, business, family life, and society

This amazing glimpse into the near future will set your business on the fast track to success in the Webified world.

From the Back Cover:

"You say you want a webolution? Read this book." —DON TAPSCOTT, best-selling author of The Digital Economy and Growing Up Digital; co-author of Digital Capital

"Excellent bedtime reading - except it prevents you from sleeping!" —YRJO NEUVO, Executive Vice-President & Chief Technical Officer, Nokia Mobile Phones

"A pleasure to read, providing new insights into the future impact of the Internet on our personal and professional lives." —JANICE M. SCITES, Vice-President, Internet Implementation Strategy, AT&T Corp.

"Frank Feather knows how to get under the skin of every consumer company with the message: change or suffer." —KEVIN MANEY, Technology Columnist, USA Today

"A 'must read' for any executive who expects to be employed in 2010." &mdashJOHN BRANDT, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, Industry Week and Industry Week.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Capstone
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1841121673
• ISBN 13: 9781841121673
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 318