Big Issues: The Examined Life in a Digital Age

Bys: Forbes ASAP and Mike Malone

Book Overview

The nation's leading opinion makers converge to address technology and its impact on society and business The Forbes ASAP annual Big Issue is the most important magazine special in all of high technology. It has been hailed as "the last great bastion of the essay" by author Stanley Crouch. It is historian Stephen Ambrose's favorite publication to write for, and Tom Wolfe has made it the home for more of his original essays than any other publication in the last decade. Each of the five Big Issues has tackled a burning social question as it relates to technology, including the new meaning of work, the changing nature of time in the digital age, the great convergence (work/play, public/private, science/religion), and what is true. And each issue brings together the best writers and thinkers in search of answers. Big Issue contributors have come from business (Bill Gates, Andrew Grove), science (E. O. Wilson, Stephen Jay Gould), literature (John Updike, Reynolds Price, Elmore Leonard), history (John Keegan, Jacques Barzun), politics (Gore Vidal, Peggy Noonan), sports (Muhammad Ali), and religion (the Dalai Lama). Sixty-three of the best essays from the first five Big Issues are complied in this new collection, with an original foreword by longtime Big Issue fan Peter Jennings.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471414913
• ISBN13: 9780471414919
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.4" x 1.2" x 6.2"

Customer Reviews

Thought provoking wisdom on the digital age

Being a fan of Forbes and ASAP makes me somewhat partial. Oftentimes business books tend to wonder off into their own world of advice and author tainted views. Not so with Big Issues. It takes you to places you want to visit and places you never knew existed. Like "Lessons from the Top," by Thomas Neff and James Citrin, Big Issues offers advice and wisdom from many perspectives. It's a book full of forest and trees on how the Internet has wedged its way into all our lives. Key chapters abound like Screw's Al Goldstein's `Cybersex Leaves Me Limp,' and Andy Grove's `Only the Productive Survive,' offer insight hard to find elsewhere. It's one of those rare books you can take with you and just open up to any point and read with interest. Like fine music, I will enjoy this read over and over again. I loved this book.