With a light touch,this bookshows that conservatism needn't be stodgy or defensive, even though it is based on preserving the status quo.

The market collapse in the technology sector hasn"t altereda fundamental reality; the tech-driven economy has made a lot of people rich in a short period of time.

The image of the impecunious professor dies hard, but many of today's college teachers and administrators are in fact living rather well.

Real digital divide is that some people and some groups know how to usetechnology to get information and others are not as adept at doing so.

Even in the American high-tech sector, several highly successful entrepreneurs are bemoaning what they call a resurgence of greed in the New Economy.

Techno-utopians argue that science will give us the means to straighten the crooked timber of humanity and to remake our species into something "post-human."

The real digital divide is between those who know how to use these tools to acquire knowledge and those who don't.

This bookoffers the first in-depth analysis of the spiritual and social crisis that has been spawned by the new economy and new technologies.