Dimensions: 170 x 150 x 20 mm Weight: 260 grams
Who wants to be remembered, has left the tracks. It is in the trend of the times that many people make considerable effort for it themselves, leave enough traces. Leader in this discipline is narcissistic Oliver W. Schwarzmann, whose book consists entirely of quotations.
was in Indian temple art is the motto: "Leave everything superfluous and enhances the rest away." In science, a voluminous book - much to the chagrin of the author, who has often been difficult for years - not much more than a quote. What is could be more like the black man have thought when the book leave out everything but the quotes, of which one wants to remain in the memory of the other tracks.
Incredible as it sounds, the book simply consists of quotations. Anyone who suspects for such a thing? The author, according to self-report (together with oversized photo) is a former banker who has been focusing on economic issues of the future. From this he has the same a 'business' done, formed a company and a publishing house that brings out his books. Another publisher would probably hardly print such a book. It reminds me of a book titled "All men understand what women" to me my former roommates from France once gave: it had only blank pages. Also a good business idea.
black man described themselves as "thought leaders" and so also is its series of books. It can be about speakers agencies for "living" book talks and has written to all possible and impossible topics studies and expert opinions. In an interview, he says the question of what are for thought leaders, media or a mastermind, "thought leaders, media publications in which the mastermind - in this case, I - his visions, theories, trends, insights brings onto sheet of paper" . The interview is also available as it Videocast .
Rarely has someone so openly denied the other's own ability to think and to put over them. The Greeks called it hubris - arrogance and hubris. Where did this person actually takes the impertinence to move with his ridiculous "issues expeditions" to globalization, demographics, mobility and new media such in the center? If it is true that the first information generated attention that it attempts to more than narcissistic "future writer" back themselves into the focus of attention.
What appears then, are thrown together nice quotes. With black man not even shy away from classical quotations "free" to give back to deface ie. The book is not the promised "exciting and ground breaking excited about the future of the world 'but an insight into the psyche of an actor. there is nothing to save. There are no explanations, no context. Since no residue was left out because none exist. Pure superficiality is issued as a perspective.
Although some of the quotes are quite nice. But a book that consists entirely of quotations, belongs to a different publishing format: the aphorisms . In fact, the few lines on white background will not be much more interested than aphorisms of thinking that everything revolves around themselves than on real solutions. Every Indian architects would be in this style just bad.
contribution to the future of humanity: None. The only track that should leave the book is waste paper.
Oliver Black Man: The future of the world. A Perspective Expedition, 2008. Bley and Schwarzmann, Waiblingen. ISDN 978-3-933452-70-2
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