Drawn from a blog of the same name (minus the asterisk), the book offers a catalogue of twenty-first-century anxieties expressed in the form of freehand illustrations, diagrams, and slogans the protest affiches of a new, self-conscious generation.
With Asterisk loaded onto a computer, a decent-size company can rip out its traditional phone switch, even some of its newfangled Internet telephone gear, and say good-bye to 80% of its telecom equipment costs.
He will still cheerfully put the all-important asterisk in his table and declare that he has found a counterintuitive insight that disconfirms some important prevailing assumption.