Rating: 
Summary: stop laughing this is serious
Review: great book, drucker and co move ove
Rating:
Summary: This book will have gotten two thumbs up!
Review: Prediction #1
In the future, _The Dilbert Future_ will
become required reading in all junior high
schools; a trend set by the learned and
far-thinking people at Scott Adams Junior High,
located just outside the border of North Dakota.
Rating:
Summary: How does he manage to keep being so funny.
Review: As a registered Dilbert addict I recommend this and all of hisworks. He has a brilliant wit, doesn't take himself seriously andwrites much better than he draws. His books are an essential read for anyone that works in or deals with the corporate world. The last sections of this book take a new direction where he ventures into speculation. Take that part seriously, unlike some of the other reviewers here, for he isn't joking about that. The book is a must read.
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Summary: This is NOT a "Dilbert" book
Review: For those of you looking to laugh at the further adventures ofDilbert, this book is NOT for you! Although Dilbert is on the cover,the comedy that drives this comic strip appears only sporadically throughout the book. Instead, for an extremely high price, you are presented with Adam's sober predictions for the future, which are very, very loosely based on Dilbert. Save your money, and buy one of the other Dilbert books. This book is only for those interested in Scott Adams as a philosopher, not as a cartoonist.
Rating: 
Summary: yawn... not worth a buy
Review: In all fairness to Scott Adams I have read only
the first 1/3rd of the book and this is the first
Dilbert book that I have trouble completing.
Most of the pages do not speak of Office-room
stupidity which is Scott Adams's forte but is a rambling and incoherent account about nothing in particular.
The book does not do much of what Scott Adams
is great at -- poke fun at Corporate America.
Instead it is a high-priced, fairly thin book
that recycles some old laughs and tacks on a lot
of boring drivel.
I somehow get the suspicion that it is more an attempt to cash in on the Dilbert name and
fame than an attempt to write a halfway decent
book.
Rating: 
Summary: Amusing, but with some serious food for thought
Review: Hmmm...not exactly the future I was expecting. Clearly this book was written with tongue firmly planted in cheek, it has to be read with the same mindset. This probably would have been much more effective if Adams had focused on his strengths, namely the world of work. The sections dealing with the worlds of work and business are by far the most effective sections of this book. While the convoluted logic used in the other sections are amusing, it often feels like Adams is trying too hard to be funny.
In the final chapter ("A New View of the Future") Adams steps out of his role as a humorist and provides some serious food for thought. I found this to be the most effective part of the book. His argument that finding alternative ways to perceive the universe can be empowering is actually quite persuasive, and his examples of such alternative perceptions are intiguing. If nothing else, it is helpful to be reminded that our current understanding of our world could prove to be just as inaccurate as earlier views of the universe. I read this expecting little more than some light entertainment, but I've come away with some serious food for thought...
Rating:
Summary: Disappointing
Review: I think Dilbert is hilarious! Unfortuately, in this book Scott Adams was less so. The book would have been much funnier with less of Adams' commentary and more Dilbert strips. Adams' unnecessary occassional use of vulgarity detracted much from the humor.
Rating:
Summary: Brilliant. The smartest book I've ever read.
Review: 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!
Rating: 
Summary: Overall a good read
Review: 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.
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