CHAPTER 2The Evolution of Wealth
Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one.
—Peter Drucker
Like most childhoods, mine had its challenges. Yet I realize now that I was fortunate in my upbringing in every sense of the word. One of my earliest memories is traveling to live for a year in New York City with my mother, who was getting her master’s degree in early childhood education. For a five-year-old boy from North Carolina, learning to ice-skate on the rink at Rockefeller Center was high adventure. The memory of ...
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