Frances Cairncross Concepts

Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities

by Alain Bertaud · 9 Nov 2018 · 769pp · 169,096 words

most of our commuting trips? Indeed, it is much cheaper to move data than to move people. This is precisely the main argument developed by Frances Cairncross in her book The Death of Distance (2001). Cairncross suggests that the Internet and the global spread of wireless technology are increasingly making distance irrelevant

Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist

by Alex Zevin · 12 Nov 2019 · 767pp · 208,933 words

, inflation and current-account deficits were rising: ‘Business in Britain’, 20 May 1989. 25.The other contenders in 1993 were Jim Rohwer, Hong Kong chief; Frances Cairncross, environment editor, Daniel Franklin, Britain editor; Johnny Grimond, foreign editor, and David Lipsey, writing for the Britain section. See Jacob Weisberg, ‘The Tweed Jungle’, Vanity

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World’, 23 September 1989; ‘The IMF and the World Bank’, 12 October 1991; ‘Globalisation and Its Critics’, 29 September 2001. Many other editors helped, including Frances Cairncross, who wrote favourably on globalization’s environmental, technological and managerial dimensions. Her reports for the Economist turned into Costing the Earth (1993) and the Death

The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-First Century

by Ryan Avent · 20 Sep 2016 · 323pp · 90,868 words

DEATH OF DISTANCE That a few cities should find themselves in this position represents something of a surprise. In 1997 a journalist at The Economist, Frances Cairncross, published a book titled The Death of Distance.1 Her book examined the ways in which the digital revolution was shaping and would continue to

The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom

by Evgeny Morozov · 16 Nov 2010 · 538pp · 141,822 words

. This is not how it was supposed to be. Many early predictions about the Internet posited that it would rid the world of government propaganda. Frances Cairncross in her 1997 best seller, The Death of Distance, a defining text in the cyber-utopian canon, predicted that “free to explore different points of

Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy

by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake · 4 Apr 2022 · 338pp · 85,566 words

-working revolution might accelerate this change. In 1968, computer scientist Douglas Engelbart demonstrated videoconferencing and simultaneous collaborative document editing.16 Three decades later, the journalist Frances Cairncross coined the term “the death of distance” to describe a world in which these technologies would free the economy from the vulgar constraints of place

Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change From the Cult of Technology

by Kentaro Toyama · 25 May 2015 · 494pp · 116,739 words

freely and . . . the effect will be to increase understanding, foster tolerance, and ultimately promote worldwide peace.”17 This may sound horribly naïve, but the author, Frances Cairncross, is hardly an intellectual lightweight. She has been a journalist for The Guardian and The Economist and has held top posts at Britain’s Economic

Age of the City: Why Our Future Will Be Won or Lost Together

by Ian Goldin and Tom Lee-Devlin · 21 Jun 2023 · 248pp · 73,689 words

ever. Appreciation of the complexity of globalization has come a long way since the early 2000s, when Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat and Frances Cairncross’s The Death of Distance captured the public’s imagination. With the power of hindsight, we now know that place is of utmost importance in

Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life

by Richard Florida · 28 Jun 2009 · 325pp · 73,035 words

of physical location. The same prophecies persist today. In 1995 The Economist proclaimed the death of distance. “Thanks to technology and competition in telecoms,” journalist Frances Cairncross predicted, “distance will soon be no object.” Four years later the same magazine proudly announced the conquest of location. “The wireless revolution is ending the

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of the Creative Class, Basic Books, 2002. Chapter 2 1 Thomas Friedman, The World Is Flat, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005. 2 The original article is Frances Cairncross, “The Death of Distance,” The Economist, September 30, 1995. She later published an influential book by the same title, The Death of Distance, Harvard Business

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart

by Nicholas Carr · 28 Jan 2025 · 231pp · 85,135 words

human government.”2 The web seemed the perfect medium for the dawning age of universal democracy. The technology’s effect, wrote the prominent Economist editor Frances Cairncross in her 1997 book, The Death of Distance, “will be to increase understanding, foster tolerance, and ultimately promote worldwide peace.”3 Her words echoed, almost

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6: The Democratization Fallacy 1.Reno v. ACLU, 521 U.S. 844 (1997). 2.Francis Fukuyama, “The End of History?,” National Interest, Summer 1989. 3.Frances Cairncross, The Death of Distance (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1997), xvi. 4.Douglas Rushkoff, Open Source Democracy: How Online Communication Is Changing Offline Politics (London

The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future

by Julia Hobsbawm · 11 Apr 2022 · 172pp · 50,777 words

that for all of its faults the office provided some kind of in-built network structure they had to remake alone.6 The management writer Frances Cairncross famously described the internet era as ‘the death of distance’7 but the Nowhere Office sees its rebirth. It is widely acknowledged among recruiters that

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’, TechCrunch, 26 March 2020, https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/26/report-whatsapp-has-seen-a-40-increase-in-usage-due-to-covid-19-pandemic/ 7. Frances Cairncross, The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution is Changing Our Lives (Harvard Business Review Press, 2001) 8. Lin Grensing-Pophal, ‘Taking Advantage of a