Foreword to the 2000 edition -- Opening scene : the world is ten years old -- Part One. Seeing the system. The new system -- Information arbitrage -- The Lexus and the olive tree -- ... And the walls came tumbling down -- Microchip Immune Deficiency -- The golden straitjacket -- The electronic herd -- Part Two. Plugging into the system. DOScapital 6.0 -- Globalution -- Shapers, adapters and other new ways of thinking about power -- Buy Taiwan, hold Italy, sell France -- The golden arches theory of conflict prevention -- Demolition man -- Winners take all -- Part Three. The backlash against the system. The backlash -- The groundswell -- Part Four. America and the system. Rational exuberance -- Revolution is U.S. -- If you want to speak to a human being, press 1 -- There is a way forward.