The Transformation Age: How to Survive a Technology Revolution

Information technology has spurred extraordinary innovations and breakthroughs over the past half-century. The advances continue today, as businesses migrate from the physical to the virtual, transforming the American workplace and 21st-century commerce in the process. The Transformation Age: How to Survive a Technology Revolution with Robert X. Cringley introduces the people poised to take advantage of new information-based technologies in the next five to 10 years. Host Robert X. Cringely — writer, commentator and host of public television's Triumph of the Nerds, Electric Moneyand Nerd TV — steps inside this revolution to observe the risk-calculations and bets industry leaders make on the future, and how past innovations can influence the critical thinking of tomorrow.