The Dilbert Future: Thriving on Stupidity - Scott Adams

Having said before how much I enjoyed The Dilbert Principle (plug, plug) I decided to go straight on and read The Dilbert Future, a sequel of sorts. Besides, I’d bought it at the same time! If you don’t know Scott Adams’ office-based cartoon strip now perhaps isn’t the best time for me to introduce you - I’ll leave that to another review (or www.dilbert.com) - because this isn’t quite the same anyway. The Dilbert Principle covered pretty much everything office-based (marketing, sales, human resources, down-sizing and, of course, bosses). What was left for a follow up? Answer: stupidity in the ... more

If you are familiar to the prospect of office work in Britain it is likely that you are familiar to the comic strip exploits of Dilbert in many newspapers and books. The miserable yet hard working cynic has become an icon to all who have suffered the hardship of regular office work. In this book Dilbert’s creator Scott Adams turns his massively insightful mind to the prospect of the future. His original comic is one of the best loved in English media and the reason why is evident in the book, his original comic style had me in stitches at the most ordinary of lives dilemmas. The way he ... more

I really enjoyed reading “The Dilbert Future” I bought it a couple of years ago along with “The Dilbert Principal” and “The Joy of Work”. I did enjoy the book over all, but I did miss the E-mails from readers, I found these to often be the most amusing parts of the original book. “The Dilbert Future” is more based on Scott Adams’ views on what may happen to the world, occasionally using Dilbert cartoons to help illustrate his point. I was surprised towards the end of the book, in the final chapter, to see Scott Adams being serious about his views of the future, I believe this could have been ... more