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Welcome to the Age of Chaos. Our world is getting more complex every day. Faced by a media run amok, a rapidly expanding global economy, the collapse of national and social boundaries and the profound impact of technology on our lives, we all feel like immigrants to a very new territory. Gone are the predictability and linearity of an organised, hierarchical civilisation, overwhelmed by a seemingly random and disjointed wave of change. Like any new immigrants to an unfamiliar culture, we must look to our children for signs of how to act and think. Natives of chaos, they have already adapted to its demands, and have the ability to recognise patterns in this new terrain. According to Douglas Rushkoff, ''change is the new status quo, and perhaps only our children - the new model of human being - have the ability to navigate it proficiently, because they''ve given up their helpless, hypnotised relationship to media and authority.'' Rushkoff, acclaimed as ''the brilliant heir to Marshall McLuhan'', believes that this is the moment we have been waiting for - not an apocalypse at all, but a renaissance in which children''s popular culture will lead us through despair and powerlessness towards a new sort of hope. In ''Children of Chaos'' he deconstructs the culture of the generation he calls the ''Screenagers'', from Japanimation and Nintendo to rave and new primitives, in his search for strategies on coping with and thriving amidst, the discontinuity of the post-modern experience. "A fascinating journey to the current boundary of human experience. Rushkoff has created an engaging travelogue to a whole new region of electronic interaction. I was seduced, charmed, amused and surprised." DR TIMOTHY LEARY "Douglas Rushkoff''s remarkable new book is a lively voyage around the new edge, the so-called hyperspace." ROBERT WINDER, ''Independent'' Praise for Douglas Rushkoff''s ''Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace.'' "Essential for those interested in the subject." STEPHEN AMIDON, ''Financial Times'' "Outrageous. A provocative wide-ranging survey of the current state of the interface between the longings of youth and the wild potentials of computer technology." KIRKUS REVIEWS "A fast, crazy ride through deepest hyperspace." LAURENCE O''TOOLE, ''New Statesman'' "A seriously fascinating read." I-D ...
