Technology and the Information Age have been hailed as the great liberators -- genies that will free us all from enslavement to mundane chores and the daily grind, and empower all those that are computer literate. Not so, according to Ian Angell, dubbed "The Angell of Doom" by The London Times.

Angell claims that information technology is breeding a new society of "barbarians" that will overrun social, economic and even geographical borders in a "winner take all" fight for wealth and power. He asserts that the world after the information revolution will be one in which a gifted few control corporations that move factories around the globe in search of the lowest wages.

Angell's view is apocalyptic -- poverty for the many and ungoverned wealth and opulence for the few. This elite will be a new class of robber barons without-a-country, paying no taxes and having no allegiances except wealth and power. Only those with the knowledge and power to guide the information revolution will prosper, leaving the manual labor to production workers or more efficient robots. Angell's only hope in fighting this dark force is the U.S.A.

No one else has addressed the downside of the new technology and in this thought provoking new book, the author offers eye-opening evidence that all is not well in the Information Age.