[.ca] The Dilbert Future: Thriving on Stupidity in the 21st ... (ISBN 0887309100)

From Amazon.com:
Move over, Faith Popcorn! Cartoonist Scott Adams is back in book form, and this time he gives Dilbert and his cronies a free hand to forecast the trends that just might drive business and society during the next millennium. In typical Adams fashion, The Dilbert Future: Thriving on Stupidity in the 21st Century serves up a series of laugh-out-loud predictions on technology, marketing, work, jobs, gender relations, and even the future of democracy and capitalism.

When does conspiracy theory become fact?:
I laughed my a** off with this book - a real gem. Adams manages to take things people take too seriously, and not only makes them fun, but manages to put what scientists try to explain into normal language. An excellent tongue-in-cheek take on where our world is going, as opposed to taking ourselves too seriously. Recommended for anyone who think they know it all!!!

PREDICTION 1:
If you are a bright and attractive person, you will like this book, just as you have liked all previous Dilbert books. Unfortunately, you are outnumbered by six billion people so the market for this book could have been severely limited. Fortunately, the author has applied his "First Immutable Law of Human Nature", and included plenty of comic strips. These can be appreciated (and colored) by in-duh-viduals who buy their reading material "for the pictures, not the articles". By copying the marketing plan successfully the author has ensured the success of his book.

Overall a good read:
I last read this book several years ago. I recently started to reread it. Overall it is a funny book which is still topical in many ways. But as a member of the "DNRC", I was extreamly disappointed with chapter 14. It was filled with ideas which could be paraphrased the following ways; -ESP could be real because a woman was able to name five cards I picked out of a tarot deck, even if she did get the order wrong. -Based on the results of an experiment which was reported in an article in Newsweek, it is possible that the present can change the past. -Science will prove evolution isn't real and that it was all a misperception. -Positive thinking can make things come true because of the implications of the chaos theory and of alternate realities. -Gravity can't be proven so it might be more reasonable to believe everything is constantly doubling in size. Apperantly it this was the only chapter in the book he meant to be taken seriously. His seriousness didn't stop him from coming across as an induhvidual who believed in things based on a mixture of select personal observations and on some articles about science in non-scientific magazines which he then took out of context. There is hope though; chapter 14 was revised in later editions. He might have come up with more convincing reasons to believe any of the theories; or he might have scrapped them in favor of stronger theories.

Mediocre:
I love Scott Adams stuff, but to be honest this wasn't the best he could do. It did strike my funny bone quite a few times, but it gets a little tiresome and silly. While it was quite funny, some of the humor seemed a bit strained. I would recommend The Dilbert Principle or Dilbert: The Way of The Weasel over this one.

Brilliant. The smartest book I've ever read.:
Scott Adams cannot be stopped! He will write brilliant books until his hands bleed from typing so much. This book will never get old...It also gives you great ways to insult in-duh-viduals without risk of physical harm. A great book for more of the intellectual mature people. Read this book from the index to the blank pages that have no real purpose in the back of the book. I also reccomend buying the Dilbert Complete Series DVD Set. Hey, $40 bucks for a funny and great show isn't that bad. READ DILBERT! READ DILBERT!