Alvin Toffler

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic work that predicted the anxieties of a world upended by rapidly emerging technologies—and now provides a road map to solving many of our most pressing crises. “Explosive . . . brilliantly formulated.” — The Wall Street Journal Future Shock is the classic that changed our view of tomorrow. Its startling insights into accelerating change led a president to ask his advisers for a special report, inspired composers to write symphonies and rock music, gave a powerful new concept to social science, and added a phrase to our language. Published in over fifty countries, Future Shock is the most important study of change and adaptation in our time. In many ways, Future Shock is about the present. It is about what is happening today to people and groups who are overwhelmed by change. Change affects our products, communities, organizations—even our patterns of friendship and love. But Future Shock also illuminates the world of tomorrow by exploding countless clichés about today. It vividly describes the emerging global the rise of new businesses, subcultures, lifestyles, and human relationships—all of them temporary. Future Shock will intrigue, provoke, frighten, encourage, and, above all, change everyone who reads it.

The Third Wave makes startling sense of the violent changes now battering our world. Its sweeping synthesis casts fresh light on our new forms of marriage and family, on today's dramatic changes in business and economics. It explains the role of cults, the new definitions of work, play, love, and success. It points toward new forms of twenty-first-century democracy.

In Powershift, Alvin Toffler brings to a climax the ideas set forth in his previous works to offer a stunning vision of the future that will change your life.In Powershift, Toffler argues that while headlines focus on shifts of power at the global level, equally significant shifts are taking place in the everyday world we all inhabit - the world of supermarkets and hospitals, banks and business offices, television and telephones, politics and personal life. The very nature of power is changing under your eyes.

Starting with the publication of their seminal bestseller, Future Shock , Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given millions of readers new ways to think about personal life in today’s high-speed world with its constantly changing, seemingly random impacts on our businesses, governments, families and daily lives. Now, writing with the same rare grasp and clarity that made their earlier books classics, the Tofflers turn their attention to the revolution in wealth now sweeping the planet. And once again, they provide a penetrating, coherent way to make sense of the seemingly senseless.Revolutionary Wealth is about how tomorrow’s wealth will be created, and who will get it and how. But twenty-first-century wealth, according to the Tofflers, is not just about money, and cannot be understood in terms of industrial-age economics. Thus they write here about everything from education and child rearing to Hollywood and China, from everyday truth and misconceptions to what they call our “third job”—the unnoticed work we do without pay for some of the biggest corporations in our country.They show the hidden connections between extreme sports, chocolate chip cookies, Linux software and the “surplus complexity” in our lives as society wobbles back and forth between depressing decadence and a hopeful post-decadence.In their earlier work, the Tofflers coined the word “prosumer” for people who consume what they themselves produce. In Revolutionary Wealth they expand the concept to reveal how many of our activities—whether parenting or volunteering, blogging, painting our house, improving our diet, organizing a neighborhood council or even “mashing” music—pump “free lunch” from the “hidden” non-money economy into the money economy that economists track. Prosuming, they forecast, is about to explode and compel radical changes in the way we measure, make and manipulate wealth.Blazing with fresh ideas, Revolutionary Wealth provides readers with powerful new tools for thinking about—and preparing for—their future.

Beginning with a provocative analysis of warfare in the past, futurists Alvin and Heidi Toffler offer intriguing insight into today's military conflicts--and an eye-opening portrait of the battles of the future. By describing the horrifying realities of future war, the authors offer innovative strategies for implementing future peace.

Describes the forces that are shaping the future, discusses changes in family life, business, technology, culture, and values, and looks at the state of democracy in the next century

A highly personal look at jobs, identity, sex roles, information age politics, hidden forces driving the economy, and the pitfalls and promises of social change.

Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock, predicts a "breakdown of industrial civilization on the planet and the first fragmentary appearance of a wholly new civilization", based upon his belief in a coming worldwide depression.

Such figures as Margaret Mead, R. Buckminster Fuller, Alvin Toffler, and Marshall McLuhan discuss the future of civilization

The author details ways by which corporations may survive technological change, economic turmoil, and increased competition

Según el autor, la historia de la humanidad se divide en tres grandes la primera, hace diez mil años, conocida como "período agrícola"; la segunda, hace apenas trescientos años, llamada "revolución industrial", y "la tercera ola", que empieza con el advenimiento de nuevas tecnologías. Este libro nos dice cómo realizar una transición pacífica hacia una nueva sociedad y cómo afrontar el futuro que ya está aquí

Learning for The Role of the Future in Alvin Learning for The Role of the Future in Random House FIRST First Edition, Third Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Random House, 1974. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with library stamps on title page and half title page (no other markings). Dust jacket is very good with shelf/edgewear, fading to spine and creases on left flap. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.Seller 344735 Essays We Buy Books! Collections - Libraries - Estates - Individual Titles. Message us if you have books to sell!

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Fara indoiala, Alvin Toffler este cel mai prestigios futurolog al lumii, cu reputatia intarita de confirmarea predictiilor din Al treilea val , Socul viitorului si Puterea in miscare . Ultima sa carte, Avutia in miscare , strabate inca o frontiera: aceea a modului in care se creeaza avutia. In raport cu principiile fundamentale, care sunt timpul, spatiul si cunoasterea, viata economica si sociala a omenirii va suferi transformari de proportii, cu efecte inevitabile si pe plan geopolitic.

Futurologická prognóza se soustřeďuje zejména na společenskou reflexi převratných změn, kterým je lidstvo nyní vystaveno a načrtává novou teorii adaptace člověka v zásadně odlišných podmínkách.

O autor trata de vários temas defendendo sua tese básica de que a maneira de fazermos a guerra reflete a maneira pela qual criamos a riqueza e a maneira de fazermos a antiguerra reflete a maneira pela qual fazemos a guerra.

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