Malcom Gladwell: "The Wisdom of Crowds is dazzling. It is one of those books that will turn your world upside down. It's an adventure story, a manifesto, and the most brilliant book on business, society, and everyday life that I've read in years."

Po Bronson: "This book should be in every thinking businessperson's library. Without exception."

There is a subculture of librarians that could make a significant impact on the profession. They are women and men, youthful and experienced alike, who all share one thing: a passion for solving problems by creating software.

They are hacker librarians.

The Journal of Social Structure is designed to facilitate timely dissemination of state-of-the-art results in the interdisciplinary research area of social structure -- on the patterning of social linkages among actors.

India's economy is spawning a growing middle class, a host of world-class companies, a booming stock market and a new image for this nation of more than one billion people.

But those very reforms and conditions are also reducing the prospects of some of its citizens.

The Bharatiya Janata Party is seeking re-election on the strength of an economy that grew at a breathless 10.4 percent [!?!] in the first quarter of this year.

With greater efficiencies, global competition, cheap capital and new technology, private companies are doing more with fewer employees.

Over time, the social consequences of jobless growth will become more severe.

The term "Information Revolution" is a misnomer.

All who want to succeed in this new environment must stop thinking of networks and digital technologies as media for managing information and start thinking of them as media to manage relationships.

To say that the Internet is about "information" is a bit like saying that "cooking" is about oven temperatures; it's technically accurate but fundamentally untrue.

While it is true that digital technologies have completely transformed the world of information into readily manipulable bits and bytes, it is equally true that the genuine significance of these technologies isn't rooted in the information they process and store.

A dispassionate assessment of the impact of digital technologies on popular culture, financial markets, health care, telecommunications, transportation and organizational management yields a simple observation: The biggest impact these technologies have had, and will have, is on relationships between people and between organizations.

Gutenberg's technology wasn't merely about producing compendia of information. It was about transforming traditional relationships between the People, their Church and the State. Five centuries later, the point endures: When it comes to the impact of new media, the importance of information is subordinate to the importance of community.

New kinds of relationships between networks create new kinds of relationships between people. That is the essential tension of the revolution taking place.

The irony of our so-called Information Age: Information itself offers value only when presented in the context of particular relationships.

New technologies push and test the meaning of concepts like relationship, community and interpersonal expression.

The United States has started to lose its worldwide dominance in critical areas of science and innovation.

Foreign advances in basic science now often rival or even exceed America's, apparently with little public awareness of the trend or its implications for jobs, industry, national security or the vigor of the nation's intellectual and cultural life.

"We stand at a pivotal moment," said Tom Daschle.

"We are in a new world, and it's increasingly going to be dominated by countries other than the United States."

"It's unbelievable," Diana Hicks, chairwoman of the school of public policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, said of Asia's growth in science and technical innovation. Dr. Hicks said that American scientists, when top journals reject their papers, usually have no idea that rising foreign competition may be to blame.