The Roaring 2000s; Building The Wealth And Lifestyle You Desire In The Greatest Boom In History

by Harry S. Dent

• ISBN13: 9780684838182
• ISBN10: 0684838184
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-04-14
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Summary

In his bestselling book, The Great Boom Ahead, published in 1993, Harry Dent, one of the world's most prescient economic prognosticators, stood practically alone in forecasting a new age of prosperity emerging in the 1990s and extending into the new century. Dent foresaw a booming stock market, falling mortgage rates, and the resurgence of America as the premier global economic superpower. All of his predictions have come to fruition. Now, in The Roaring 2000s, Dent focuses his visionary eye on the full spectrum of changes that will follow in the wake of the burgeoning turn-of-the-century economy. According to Dent, how and where we work and live is about to change more drastically than at any time in our history due to the convergence of the mainstreaming of the Internet and other technologies and the peak spending years of the aging baby boomers. This will result in nothing less than the greatest boom in history and an unprecedented opportunity for investors and entrepreneurs, great buys in real estate, and a wealth of high-quality lifestyle choices for the savvy people who anticipate these changes. We will we such rapid and exciting change as we have not seen since the dizzying pace of the productivity revolution unleashed by the assembly line in the Roaring Twenties. Dent not only offers detailed investment strategies aimed at exploiting the coming boom for the next fifteen years but he also explains future trends in the job market, technology, demographics, and real estate. He foresees the next great population migration and explores the radically different business and organizational structures that will be the offspring of the Information Age. At the crux of these changes is the fundamental shift to a new network model wherein front-line human "browsers" focus on intimately understanding the needs of a unique segment of customers and coordinate the products or expertise of specialized back-line human "servers" to customize solutions. With new research tools applied to the trends that have developed within the last few years, The Roaring 2000s reveals concrete predictions and indepth insights into the next decade, including: A Dow that continues to soar and will eventually reach at least 21,500, and possibly 35,000, by the year 2008 The importance of "gazelles," small- to medium-sized, high-growth companies, which today are creating most of of the jobs in this country The rapid future economic development in countries in die Far East, South America, and Eastern Europe, and select areas of Africa, and what that means for investment, employment, and business growth opportunities now The Roaring 2000s also describes the lifestyle changes these developments will inspire, including: The New American Deam -- why changing techologies could mean a return to small-town living and which nine types of boomtowns will offer the highest quality of life in the decades ahead Investment strategies that will help readers get the most out of a rapidly changing world It is essential, Dent explains, to understand the magnitude and nature of the forces changing our economy and lifestyles in order to take advantage of the invaluable, emerging opportunities for significantly improving ones quality of life. The Roaring 2000s is a necessary guidebook to the not-so-distant future.

Author Biography

Harry S. Dent, Jr., is a president of the H.S. Dent Foundation. His mission is simple: "helping people understand change." He graduated from the Harvard Business School as a Baker Scholar. He has consulted at the highest levels of business strategy for Fortune 100 companies and has managed several small-growth businesses. He is the author of The Great Boom Ahead. He and his wife, Cee, currently reside in Oakland, California. They plan in the near future to live and work on a small island in the Caribbean.

Table of Contents

Introduction	13	(12)
PART I: The Roaring 2000s	25	(66)
CHAPTER 1: The Greatest Boom in History: 1998 to 2009	27	(30)
CHAPTER 2: How New Generations Drive Economic Revolutions	57	(34)
PART II: Life in the Internet Age	91	(42)
CHAPTER 3: The Real Information Revolution	93	(18)
CHAPTER 4: The Eight Critical Technology Trends Changing How We Live and Work	111	(22)
PART III: The New Network Corporation	133	(72)
CHAPTER 5: Human Browser-Server Organizations That Operate from the Customer Back, Not the Top Down	135	(24)
CHAPTER 6: The New Look of Work: Everyone a Business	159	(11)
CHAPTER 7: The Secret to Changing Companies	170	(14)
CHAPTER 8: The Right-Brain Revolution	184	(21)
PART IV: The Next Great Population Shift and Real-Estate Boom	205	(68)
CHAPTER 9: The New American Dream: Big-City Incomes, Small-Town Living	207	(23)
CHAPTER 10: The Nine Shades of Penturbia: The New-Growth Areas in Real Estate	230	(23)
CHAPTER 11: How to Spot Real-Estate Trends and Boomtowns	253	(20)
PART V: Investment Strategies for the Roaring 2000s	273	(31)
CHAPTER 12: The Seven Principles of Successful Investing	275	(29)
Products and Services from the H.S. Dent Foundation	304	(3)
Index	307