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This is the 20th anniversary edition of a book first published in 1995. Twenty years of hindsight prove how deeply tapscott understood the impact the internet would have on the way we live, work, play and learn. New solutions for a connected planet 2012, grown up digital 2008, and wikinomics. My latest book, the 20th anniversary edition of the digital economy, explores how recent technological developments have changed, well, everything. Perhaps nothing puts don tapscotts deeply influential 1995 book. Rethinking promise and peril in the age of networked intelligence 2nd.
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Dons recent book, coauthored by alex tapscott may 2016, is the blockchain revolution, the first book to explain why blockchain. Author don tapscott to keynote 2015 ellie mae encompass. The book was very positive about the promise of the internet, and to be sure the web has brought about many great innovations. He is ceo of the tapscott group, a think tank that regularly advises business and government leaders.
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