Roadkill on the Information Highway Review
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005
This is going to be a short review of “Roadkill on the Information Highway: The Future of Work in Canada” by J. William Pfeiffer. I obtained this book from my local library, hoping to get a picture of what work in Canada will look like. Unfortunately, the book is nearly unreadable.
It seems to have been designed by someone who thinks that the reader’s maximum attention span is 60 seconds. There are any number of interesting ideas, but the longest articles seem to be about two pages in length and these are often cluttered with sidebars, comics, graphics, colored backgrounds, and other distractions.
The only way I can see using this book is as a quick reference - a way to get a point of view on a given Canadian economic issue. Reading it cover to cover strikes me as just too awkward - like trying to eat a full meal from hors d’oeuvres trays.