Infinite Wealth: A New World of Collaboration and Abundance in the Knowledge Era

By Barry C. Carter

The author describes how the equality of access to knowledge in this information age is bringing about a shift in attitudes in business and society, towards a less competitive and centralised system... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 075067184X
• ISBN13: 9780750671842
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Understanding the coming Future

With the publication of Infinite Wealth, Barry Carter has established himself as a voice on the leading edge of the synergic paradigm.The synergic paradigm is a place where you and I can be much more by working together than we could ever be by working separately. It is a place where we both can win. It is a place where we can create a win-win world in contrast to our present win/lose and often lose/lose world.To solve the problems facing us (humanity) at the beginning of the 21st Century will require nothing less than our learning to work together. We must learn to Co-Operate. As Barry Carter explains in his Conclusion to Infinite Wealth: "Our social institutions are dying. The pain we feel is the pain of death and birth simultaneously, the death of one civilization and the birth of a new one. We have entered a period in which the conservative person who does not take risks and needs stability has become the risk taker, the radical, and the gambler. It is a period in which the one who refuses to change will surely be the one who will lose the most in the coming years. There is no going back to the way things used to be. Back to the basics is a failed policy. The future has already begun, and the trend is clear."Starting today you must have a completely new outlook on life. You must be responsible. You can no longer depend on employers, unions, or governments to look out for your economic well-being, to provide you with a job, retirement, social security, health care, or a safety net."From this day forward you and your global network of partners are responsible for creating work and wealth for yourselves. If you have no network you have no security. All of the rules have changed. The guarantees and promises made to you by Industrial Age society are null and void and will be breached."The government and controlled economies have no choice. The power bestowed on them in the Industrial Age is slipping away--to you the individual supplier and customer. You the individual supplier and customer have no choice about accepting this responsibility. Mass victimization is no longer an option. "Because most companies and employees are not seriously preparing, the number of companies that fail to make the transition could be extremely high. And there likely will be no unemployment benefits, no welfare, and no Social Security safety nets to catch those who fall. Your network is your security. As we stand poised on the edge of the greatest advancement and growth boom in history, we may stumble. Many may lose life, fortune, and standard of living and suffer tremendous hardship. "We the individuals are the only ones who can make the change. Our corporate and political leaders do not have the power, vision, or intelligence to address the root causes. We the people must wake up from the Industrial Age sleep into which our factory-style schools, jobs, and governing system have lulled us. We must come out of our defined compartments and take responsibility. Our leade

An Excellent Book...

If you can overlook certain things that I find a bit grating--especially the author's touting companies like Microsoft and Amway as exemplars of the new "win/win" economy (I prefer to see them as the WORST examples of the exploitative Industrial Age economy)--you will realize this is an important and timely book. The author has created an inspiring and stimulating collage--his work itself an example of the infinite possibilities for creativity that the Information Age offers.I regularly scour library catalogs for new books in subjects like "Information Society" and "Knowledge Management." This is one of the few that I've read from cover to cover.

Infinite Wealth

I wish I had this book at my disposal when I started to change the management system at my own company. I begun a bold and seemingly insane program to get our employees more interested and involved in the company's future for the same reason Barry Carter decided to write this book. We both realized that today's big corporations are nothing more than mini Soviet Unions, controlled and socialized economies, where wealth creation is inefficient, the people are unmotivated and unhappy. (When I first got in contact with him, he thought I read his book). With this book I could have explained to my partners and the employees why I thought we needed to change and avoid the traditional pyramid structure in our company and create a self-managed environment.The author provides a clear historical and organizational analysis of our current corporate environment through his personal experience and skillful inclusion of other modern thinkers on the subject. I started my movement from a gut feel, and was doing it by the seat of my pants, while feeling like an idiot sometimes, not being able clearly define the final structure, and at the same time, I felt very lonely in the wilderness. After reading his book, everyone at my company would have clearly seen the advantages and reasons for abandoning the old management structure and creating a modern organization that could have thrived in the Information Age. I highly recommend this book and the WEB site to anyone who is aware of our changing world, who wants to survive in business, and who cares about the customers and employees by creating or changing a company to the new way of doing business, where wealth creation is maximized, while people are creative and happy.

This ties it all together,a guide toward the new economy.

"Infinite Wealth" should, but won't for obvious reasons, become required reading for all students at the High School and College levels. Anyone beyond these levels of formal education, who is in search for a deeper and more stable level of personal freedom for themselves and their descendants, should also read this book, sooner rather than later. It would also be a good idea for parents to encourage their children to read this book since most education systems continue to block them from gaining this kind of knowledge. "Infinite Wealth" clearly indentifies the political, social, economic and diverse cultural problems we are presently experiencing around the world and outlines the reasons it is urgent that solutions are implemented. Barry Carter has obviously contributed thousands of hours of thought and conscientious research in preparing to write this brilliant book. He has keenely focused his study on the history of our evolving world economies and the political systems they control, while searching for the potential solutions he has outlined. He provides a clear path, for those who share his concerns or accept his premis, for people to work together toward the creation of a better world. A world which for the first time can provide all people a legitimate chance to have a happy life, with true liberty and justice. Mr. Carter correctly identifies our "Free Market", "Free Enterprise" systems for what they are and points out why the current systems are not open, much less free, to the masses. He then goes on to illustrate how and why all of our current problems will only get worse as social knowledge continues to expand, if a new economic system is not divised to open economic freedom and opportunity to the masses around the world. There is hope and "Infinite Wealth" helps open the door toward future change for all who are willing to walk through that door to help pioneer the greatest transition in the history of human existance.