Why didn't the rise of network technologies bring great wealth to the world in the last decade? We should be experiencing great financial health because of the efficiencies of digital technologies, but instead the information economy-as it is falsely construed-is merely centralizing wealth while wealth stagnates overall. These are scary times, but THE FATE OF POWER AND THE FUTURE OF DIGNITY describes the digital side of the project of saving the middle class, providing a ray of hope for everyone.