The Deviant’s Advantage: How Fringe Ideas Create Mass Markets

Consultants (and “futurists”) Mathews and Wacker present a book about cashing in on weird ideas. Defining deviance as “something or someone operating in a defined measure away from the norm,” the authors examine the transformation that takes fringe ideas-such as jazz, holistic medicine, and even personal computing-into mass markets. They use examples such as Virgin mogul Richard Branson (whom they call a “poster boy” for … [ Read more ]