Digital Dawn CyberTrends

Professor John M. McCann

Fuqua School of Business
Duke University



This document contains a list of trends I have identified based upon quotes from managers, professionals, consultants, journalists, futurists, and educators who study the digital dawn ... the beginning of the digital age. Click on a topic to jump to the corresponding section of the document.


Digital Dawn

Settlement of the Web Frontier

Rise of the Interopolis

Rise of the Relationship Machine

Rise of Shared Memory

Rise of Cyberia

Rise of the Digitization Wormhole

Demise of Authority

Rise of the Networked Society

Rise of a Golden Age

Rise of Post-Fordism

Rise of the Third Industrial Revolution

Rise of Cyberization

Demise of the Elite




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