The Dilbert Future: Thriving on Stupidity - Scott Adams

Advantages: Another funny book
Disadvantages: But it's different from before and you may not like it as much

...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 ...
...follow up? Answer: stupidity in the 21st century (nicely illustrated by Dilbert and Dogbert in flying spacesuit type things on the cover). This book largely does away with the office environment. Dilbert is used merely incidentally to illustrate a few points (like The Dilbert Principle, this is mostly text plus cartoon strip illustrations), for the most part the book is an attempt to describe the future as ruled by ‘Induhviduals’ governed by the ... Read review

Advantages: Brilliantly minded political and sociological satire
Disadvantages: Very analytical and data based

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 ...
...had me in stitches at the most ordinary of lives dilemmas. The way he writes enables everyone to empathize with his struggles and his ideas to solve these problems are so clever we wonder why they haven’t been thought of already. Dilbert (Sunday Times comic strip on which the book is based) Dilbert is a hilarious tale of the trials and tribulations of an office worker faced with the demon that is technology, an idea that many can empathize ... Read review

Advantages: Tells us what the future holds *
Disadvantages: * may not be correct.

...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 ... Read review