Andrew Curry welcomes you to 'The Next Wave', a web site about my book (of the same name) that examines the impact of the digital networked economy on the creative industries.  
     

The Next Wave is a book about new sources of value in a world where everything that can be is 'digital', and where everything that is digital may also be networked. The Next Wave examines where value is to be found and how it will be created in the digital networked economy.

The book tries to understand what creative businesses need to do to succeed in the digital world. It does this by looking at them from different perspectives: from the user, to the industries, to their products and their economics, on the one hand. On the other, it looks at the peculiar economics of the digital world, to the sources of innovation, to why some entrepreneurs succeed and others fail.

I got into this stuff because I launched the first interactive television service in the UK for Videotron in 1993. I now work on media and new media projects for a commercial consultancy, The Henley Centre which helps companies understand how consumers are changing, and how they respond to change.

When a print and electronic version of The Next Wave become available, later this year, this site will be updated to tell you how to get hold of these. And I am also intending to make available here some of my other articles about the net and about interactive television.

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If you want to contact me about the book - or this site - then you can
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Andrew Curry - September 2001