DILBERT FUTURE audiobook

The Dilbert Future does not follow a clear storyline, but rather goes off in many different directions. The only rule that the author set, it feels, is to continue having predictions peppered throughout the book. The whole book has a nice sarcastic touch too it. It is also very cynical, but not too much so.I always like comedy that makes fun of a large group of people, and this is no acception. It makes me feel like I know something they don't, which is true, because "induhvisuals" probably won't read this book. I got this book from a little library that is a short walk away from our home, and I originally was not going to pick it up, but then I remembered that I enjoy the Dilbert comics in the newspaper and I ended up picking up the book. I am reading this book over twenty years after it was published, and something that I find funny, is that some of the predictions he made were actually somewhat correct, but for every one that he got right, there were ten that were jokes.I enjoy the little comics in each of the chapters, I think they add a lot to the book. Some parts of the book are inappropriate, I did not enjoy reading those parts because it seemed as though he added the swear words and parts about sex to get a certain demographic of people to keep reading.I love Dogbert. He appears both in the comics and sometimes in the actual book. I like the idea that dogs find humans to be idiots and attempt to profit off of their stupidity.I did not like how angry the author seemed. He seemed to hate everyone and everything around him - even his friends.One last thing, this book is kind of dated. It was written in the 1990s, and it shows in the writing. All in all, while I enjoyed reading this book, I do not recommend it to people who do not like cynical and sarcastic books. -Leumssmas Ztnuk

If you like snarky, self-depreciating humor, Dilbert is for you. I love it! The only reasons that this is 4 stars instead of 5 is 1. I read it too late. If I had read this book when it first came out, it would definitely have achieved 5 star funny. As it stands, it is a bit outdated with some of the "predictions" actually having come to fruition already but it is very appropriate for a "Throw-back Thursday Facebook" recollection and 2. Adams goes off the deep end a bit in the last chapter. I'm not sure if he thought no one would read through to the end of the book or what but it gets a little bizarro. Adam's writes this book using predictions of the future in many different aspects. He uses his comics to illustrate his points. I will share some of my favorite quotes and predictions.-"I can run faster than cheap panty hose on an itchy porcupine." -"To me, computers are like tangerines, in the sense that I can't make a good analogy about either one of them right now."-There is a whole chapter about how life will NOT be like Star Trek and what it would look like if it were. The inner geek in me squealed and of course I had to read parts to my husband.-"PREDICTION 16- In the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel"-"PREDICTION 28 - In the future, women will rule the world in all democratic countries. I base this predictions on two facts that cannot be disputed. 1. Women already control the world. 2. Who's going to stop them?"-"...women get to squish men's fragile egos like Fudgsicles on a Los Angeles freeway." "...cry-free time of the month..."-good old fun making of North Dakota-sniff evidenceFrom the above cited, you should get a good feeling if you will enjoy this book or not. I did love it.

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This book was great. It was funny from the start, and I wouldn’t expect any less from Scott Adams. Disclaimer: I like his comics, and I would count them among my favourites, but it’s pretty hit or miss. Some I get right away and find hilarious and others I don’t. But this book was much funnier than any of his cartoons. Only maybe the first few chapters were laugh-out-loud funny the entire time, but later chapters did have a few great moments. It ended on a rather serious note. But it was all very good and interesting. Now you have to look at this book in a historical context—it’s meant to predict the future, and it was first published in 1997 (the same decade I was born, in fact), and you have to recognise that a LOT has changed in the past two decades. I don’t even think he mentions cell phones because they weren’t quite ubiquitous yet, although computers were. I think pagers were about as portable as he got in terms of personal tech. But that said, some of his predictions came true, some definitely didn’t, and some still might. It’s really cool to think about, because it offers true historical insight (in a way I can actually comprehend, i.e. through humour). I can relate how he describes the 1997 world to what I know about my parents’ lives around the time of my birth. In some ways the world was a lot simpler then, but in other ways it was still more complicated than I could comprehend (when he talks about ISDNs or some acronym that I kept confusing with ISBN). And in a very basic way, not much has changed at all. A lot of his predictions were for the very grand future, and those things may still yet come to pass. Some of his predictions involved technology branching off in ways different from what ended up happening. Some of his predictions were basic enough to hold true in probably all circumstances. (His most frequent assertions were that people were inherently stupid, lazy, and horny.) Some predictions I’m sure he made just for the fun of it, or rather wishful thinking. Those probably won’t come to pass. But it was all very relatable. I think this book will be enjoyed many years into the future. This was my first Dilbert book—I don’t even have a collection of the comics, I am ashamed to say, though I definitely will someday (I shall raise my kids on comics as I was). I actually just noticed that it was the third in a series; it happened to be the first my library had available to loan to me. So I shall definitely be reading more of them. I have another waiting on my shelf. I laughed a lot, learned a lot, and was thoroughly satisfied and entertained.See the full review on my book blog, Awesome Book Assessment.

I bought this book on May 21st, 1997. I know that as its been sitting on my shelf since the first time I read it and the original receipt from Bookstar was in the book. Lots of changed in the last 23 years including the fact that Scott Adams does not have the hair he had, Bookstar is closed, and many of the hopes and dreams I have were squashed like bugs. However this is supposed to be a review of the book and not my life.I rated this five stars as I love Dilbert. Unlike everything I listed above that has changed, things in the office environment have not. Many of the things Scott predicted have not even come close to coming true, but maybe they have. The Networked Computer (LOL) the PC won! But then again not a lot you can do on your latest computer, aka iPhone / Android without the network, so maybe the NC won. It all about perception which was an interesting commentary at the end of the book.Scott has also talked about Affirmations. So I am going to try it. I guess I should have tried it 23 years ago and maybe I would have finally won the lottery or been a bazillionaire. Anyway the book was written so long ago you can take a voyage through time and wonder how scarily accurate he was or how hilariously wrong. Either way its a fun journey. It was also a nice humorous read as opposed to something more serious like Implementing the NIST Cybersecurity Framework using COBIT 2019.

I really envy people who could spin something so serious and nerdy into something hilarious! I’ve seen Dilbert comic strips before but was never really into it. I guess having known management terms and practice would make you appreciate the jokes better. The last chapter of the book was a bit heavy though. But it just goes to show that Scott Adams is a deep-thinking man of science and not simply a silly cartoonist. I was surprised to learn that Scott Adams himself is a great believer of Affirmation and has been practicing it long before The Secret phenomenon was spread.Dilbert books would make a great gift for anybody in mid-management level or perhaps those who'll be graduating for their MBAs *hint hint*Favourite Quote:I’m more a sprinter than a marathoner when it comes to many aspects of life... over short distance... I can run faster... But over long distance, I’m not so impresive… the smartest professionals will avoid becoming either managers or employees. They’ll have clients instead of bosses. They will be blissfully independent.The attractive graduates of big-name schools earn obscene salaries, buy expensive stuff, and die in freak accidents.The ugly ones enter academia. Either way it’s tragic.… people being willing to take the time to put information on the Net without the benefit of payment. Why will people do that? They will do it because that’s our most basic human nature: People like to talk more than they like to listen.

I basically breezed through the end, but I get the general gist. Scott Adams is brilliant and funny. Sometimes.

This book is just too funny til it gets too serious at the end. There's a some comic strips that had me rolling. One is the strip of Dilbert having a doll in the image of his boss sitting on the monitor. After the boss leave's Dilbert's cubical, Dilbert tells the doll to stop popping in his cubical and whacks the doll off the monitor. I had tears in my eyes at that one. I feel like that with every boss and supervisor I've ever had.Another one is the strip of Dilbert filling out a expense report. The Accounting dept had tied him up for spending about $10 on lunch when he is suppose to kill a pigeon. My company is gonna get like that soon because they are so damn cheap!!I love this book! Some of Adams predictions have come to pass. He puts them in a very humorous kind of way. I didn't like the last chapter. It was too serious for such a funny book.

Great read.Not for the jokes but rather all of Scott Adams' concepts. The take on the life in other planets is hillarious, that how it is just the intelligent people living in some sectors of earth. I so totally agreed with The incompetence line and how engg degree has expiry period while eco fundas can be applied anywhere!Future of work had to be great being the forte.It does have its share of whats-there-to-laugh moments, though. But with Dilbert, i don't find them unexpected. Also, being more than a decade old, some predictions might be a nit passe. Deal with it.But chapter14 takes the prize of all. Very griping.Recommended!

Mr. Adams has no great faith in human nature. He’s certain that three things about human nature will remain constant: selfishness, stupidity, horniness. Because of that, the future envisioned by Star Trek devotees just ain’t gonna happen.Hilarious, acerbic, acidic, Mr. Adams doesn’t give you ways of dealing with your fellow men as removing you from their gun sights while keeping a sharp eye on their rotten behavioral tactics. His keen insight for human foibles remains unabated and this book is just a reminder of how humor doesn’t leaven misery so much as rides atop it like a cowboy on a bucking bronco.

Scott Adams is really a genius. Not only does he write funny comics, and funny prose, but he manages to work in meaningful social commentary to trick people into thinking! Anyway, this book has some disturbingly accurate predictions as well as some crazy, off the wall ones. The first 13 chapters are a joy to read. It only gets 4 stars because of the 14th chapter where Adams switches from humorous social commentary to new age philosophy which is interesting but not appropriate for a book of this sort. All in all, a really fun book though.

741.5973 Dilbert series - Subtitled: thriving on stupidity in the 21st century. Adams draws hilariously absurdist conclusions from his peripatetic observations. His targets include genetically engineered children, the chaos theory, life on other planets, euthanasia, frequent flier programs, clothes, and bicycle seats. Although Adams admits that it is impossible to know the future because the unexpected usually happens, he also argues that we will always be able to depend on the existence of stupidity and its predictable effects.

Scott Adams' books are all comically brilliant though they tend to blend together a bit after a while. Dilbert Future is notable for its last chapter, where he "departs from the comedy" for a moment and becomes sincerely philosophical. Truly curious and insightful comments can be found there about the nature of reality as we see it and I go so far as to say it has impacted my own philosophy about life and its inner workings.

What could you not like about Dilbert audios. I can only assume they are aimed at male 18-40 technology employees that work in an office environment. So if you fit into this category, you will love it.All the funny quips and social commentary that this and all his other books contain hit the mark so perfectly.Highly recommended

I read this book in 2000 and apart from being extraordinarily funny it also had a huge impact on me and my life. I love Scott Adam's work but this book became the genesis for my own novel, well the part on affirmations and for some reason Scott Adam's version of affirmations really worked for me so on that basis alone I recommend buying it.

Very funny, though often formulaic (works great in 3 or 6 panels, but less so in the prose). I hadn't realized Adams's mystic streak extended so far back (1980's), as evidenced in the last couple sections of the book. Interesting stuff, but quite a digression from his normal humorous routine.I mean, you definitely know what you're getting with Dilbert, and this book did not disappoint!

Scott Adams has always had his thumb on the pulse of business America. The scary/intriguing part is that he was able to correctly predict so much that we see today, almost 22 years ago.