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Summary: A laugh riot!
Review: I found the Dilbert Future to be funny and interesting all at the same time. There are few people I know of with the genius to do them both at the same time!
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Summary: Unfunny book of half-baked ideas by amusing cartoonist.
Review: Scott Adams is badly off track with this book. In contrast to The Dilbert Principle, where Adams exhibited wit and insight in making his points humorously, in the Dilbert Future he simply reads like a sour curmudgeon swinging his cane wildly. Much of what he writes either does not pertain to business stupidity, which Adams does excel in exposing, or is spiteful, or childish, or, worst of all, not humorously set forth. Reading his Chapter 12 on Endangered Species is a case in point: if there is a humorous line in there, I didn't see it; if Adams is witty there, it escaped me. He vents his spleen on airlines (which surely deserve all of our invective) in Chapter 13, Some Things Won't Improve, but doesn't really say anything, funny or otherwise; it's simply a throw-away chapter taking up a little space in the book. Parenthetically, I suppose readers should be happy with the brevity of Adams' throw-away writings: Clancy has made a career of writing and peddling floor sweepings. The great irony of the book is that Adams, in his final chapter and postscript, joins the ranks of "Induhviduals," which he defines in his Introduction as "the 6 billion idiots who get in our (bright and attractive people) way." So, what do I mean by saying he joined their ranks? Adams posits that in the future the theory of evolution and much of western science by extension will be debunked. He offers as proof a bunch of cockamamie psuedo-arguments to disprove time moves forward, objects move, gravity exists, and cause and effect relationships exist. Most of the stuff he presents in Chapter 14 and defends in his Postscript sounds like late night tripping by early '70's era roach puffers: "What if all this is in my imagination and doesn't really exist? Whoa, man, it's all a heavy mind-game. Far out, man." Cheech and Chong did it better - and much funnier - twenty years ago. But, why not? After all, Adams says right at the beginning of Chapter 14 "I'm turning the humor mode off for this chapter . . ." He could have said that in the Introduction, for all the humor contained in this book.I hope to see more amusing and insightful Dilbert books. If Adams sticks to what he knows and stays away from musings on the paranormal, I may, in fact, see them in Dilbert's future.
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Summary: So Uncanningly Accurate, It's Scary!!!
Review: From the Bible to Nostradamus to Jean Dixon to the Bankrupt Psychic Hotline, people have tried to predict what the future will hold. Scott Adams is the perfect soothesayer who doesn't try to soothe your ego. Extrapolating on current trends, he shows how the future will be shaped by a few humans with a modicum of intellegence even while being held back by the morons in high places. This book is definately a keeper. I haven't seen this type of science fiction extrapolation since Asimov created psycho-history and Heinlein devised the future history! Read about the future NOW!!! Before it becomes history!
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Summary: I laughed out loud every page
Review: Scott Adams is not only good at writing cynical amusing little comic strips, he is also good at writing cynical amusing books. I did think he was starting to wig out in the last chapters when he pontificated on reality and the meaning of life, though, but it didn't distract from the overall excellence of the book.
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Summary: Painfully Hysterical
Review: This book is incredibly funny! A must read for any true Dilbert fan. Adams has produced another gem, and I can't wait to read his next book!
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Summary: If you like the cartoon, this is the book!
Review: If you like Scott Adam's strips, you will enjoy this book a lot! It is the same kind of sarcastic and cynic humour, but with a different perspective. He looks at the future and, with his fantastic crystal ball, predicts it very well!
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Summary: Thinking of other people that are stupider than you
Review: I thought this book brought up a lot of questions that should be answered in a very seious manner. However Scott Adams brought these social idiosincrecies to life by making fun of people stupider than he is. He also takls about my favorite section "Why life will not be like Star Trek." It includes everything from the holodeck to teleporeters. Incredably hilarious with a touch of seriousness added in for flavor.
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Summary: this book is great !!!
Review: Scott Adams does it again.
He is amazingly funny. In his book, the Dilbert future Scott Adams Predicts the future of technology, politics, Airlines & much more.
I really enjoyed this book.
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Summary: Funny and Scary at the same time
Review: Why funny yet scary? Funny because the cartoons illustrate well Adams' observations on modern life, scary to see so many of my own thoughts/fears/wonderings in black and white in the last chapter. A book for provoking thought rather than for provoking belly laughter, although it is highly likely you will identify with Adams' own problems with home appliances....
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Summary: Nearly as funny as the cartoon
Review: Anybody looking for more of Adams's typical office humor probably isn't going to be very satisfied with this book. But his predictions for the future are often hilarious (especially the Star Trek part), so it's worthwhile, definitely. The last chapter, humorlessly discussing his scientific beliefs, should probably be skipped due to lots of misleading information, but the rest of the book is very funny and should be picked up.
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