Telecommuters will not stay at home, they will roam—or so it is
foretold in Digital Nomad, a gushing vision of how technology will help evolve
today’s harried business people into the travellers and explorers of the next
century. Authors Tsugio Makimoto of Hitachi Semiconductors and David Manners of
Reed Business Information predict a future where advancing information
technology will converge portably, so freeing us from the office to act on our
primordial urge—to globetrot. Published by John Wiley,
£14.99$35, ISBN 0471974994.
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