Preface
This document, reproducing the Acknowledgements of Christopher Barnatt's book Valueware: Technology, Humanity and Organization is made available for the purposes of private study only and is not for further reproduction in means electronic or otherwise.
WRITING THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FOR a book is often problematic. On the one hand, an author tries desperately not to leave anyone out. On the other, one also fights a nagging concern that very long lists of thanks will not inspire the reader. Below I'll therefore try -- and fail -- to be both comprehensive and brief!
Firstly, having just finished a book on the nature of value and its creation, I would like to thank my parents for being the most influential conscious and unconscious shapers of my own perceptions of the world. Next, thanks wholeheartedly go to those busy individuals who spared the time and thought to contribute to chapter 6. Thirdly, I would like to thank Diane Van Bakel who has followed this Trilogy from the start, and whose e-mails of encouragement has been much appreciated over the last year and more.
Next, a nod of appreciation to Sue Tempest for always smiling when I knocked on her door, and to Mark Daintree for listening to so many crazy, off-the-wall ideas for too many years to mention. And we may build a 'real virtual reality' yet!
Finally, I would like to thank Jeremy Geelan for so skilfully pursuing this book into print. Since persuading me to leap in and say 'yes, contract please!' he has endured an horrific skiing accident, whilst I have merely suffered finger- and brain-pain at the keyboard. Fortunately, we've both pulled through now -- as witnessed by the fact that you are holding a completed book in your hands.
Well, I guess the above wasn't either comprehensive or brief. But then little to be said of value ever is.
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