ISBN: 9780553057768 - powershift: knowledge, wealth and violence at the edge of the 21st century (30 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Fair. Alvin Toffler's Future Shock and The Third Wave are among the most influential books of our time. Now, in Powershift, he 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 our eyes. Powershift maps the info-wars of tomorrow and outlines a new system of wealth creation based on individualism, innovation, and information. As old political antagonisms fade, Toffler identifies where the next, far more important world division will arise--not between East and West or North and South, but between the fast and the slow. In Powershift, Alvin Toffler has formulated the deepest, most comprehensive synthesis yet written about the civilization of the twenty-first century. It is one of the most important books you will ever read. Praise for Powershift A] sweeping synthesis . . . by placing the accelerated changes of our current information age in the larger perspective of history, Mr. Toffler helps us to face the future with less wariness and more understanding.--The New York Times Book Review An insightful guide to a bewildering present and a frightening future . . . thought-provoking on every page.--Newsday.…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Alvin Toffler's Future Shock and The Third Wave are among the most influential books of our time. Now, in Powershift, he 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 our eyes. Powershift maps the info-wars of tomorrow and outlines a new system of wealth creation based on individualism, innovation, and information. As old political antagonisms fade, Toffler identifies where the next, far more important world division will arise--not between East and West or North and South, but between the fast and the slow. In Powershift, Alvin Toffler has formulated the deepest, most comprehensive synthesis yet written about the civilization of the twenty-first century. It is one of the most important books you will ever read. Praise for Powershift A] sweeping synthesis . . . by placing the accelerated changes of our current information age in the larger perspective of history, Mr. Toffler helps us to face the future with less wariness and more understanding.--The New York Times Book Review An insightful guide to a bewildering present and a frightening future . . . thought-provoking on every page.--Newsday. …

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Alvin Toffler's Future Shock and The Third Wave are among the most influential books of our time. Now, in Powershift, he 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 our eyes. Powershift maps the info-wars of tomorrow and outlines a new system of wealth creation based on individualism, innovation, and information. As old political antagonisms fade, Toffler identifies where the next, far more important world division will arise--not between East and West or North and South, but between the fast and the slow. In Powershift, Alvin Toffler has formulated the deepest, most comprehensive synthesis yet written about the civilization of the twenty-first century. It is one of the most important books you will ever read. Praise for Powershift A] sweeping synthesis . . . by placing the accelerated changes of our current information age in the larger perspective of history, Mr. Toffler helps us to face the future with less wariness and more understanding.--The New York Times Book Review An insightful guide to a bewildering present and a frightening future . . . thought-provoking on every page.--Newsday.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good+. Book of the Month Club. 585 pages; fading to DJ's spine. Light to moderate foxing to the top exterior edge of textblock. Minor foxing to the fore-edge of textblock and DJ edges on the fore-edge. One page has margin markings. ; - We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. SOLID CLEAN BRIGHT AND UNMARKED FULL NUMBER LINE BY THE AUTHOR OF FUTURE SHOCK A LOOK AHEAD WRITTEN IN 1990 BY AMERICA'S FOREMOST FUTURIST THE AUTHOR DEFINES THE ENTIRE NEW SYSTEM OF WEALTH CREATION AND THE GRADUAL CHANGES IN SOCIETY WE DID NOT ARRIVE HERE IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE THIS IS AN INTERSTING BOOK OF IDEAS AND THOUGHTS PREDICTING OUR WORLD TODAY JACKET IS BRIGHT COMPLETE AND UNCLPPED ORIGINAL PRICE 22 .95. N/A (illustrator).…

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Hardcover. Reprint. Second printing. xxii, 585, [1] p. Index From the world-renowned author of the national bestsellers Future Shock and The Third Wave comes the culmination of a 25-year effort to map the astounding changes propelling modern man into the 21st century. Toffler provides the insight the reader needs to survive and prosper in the tumultuous years ahead. From Wikipedia: "Alvin Toffler (born October 4, 1928) is an American writer and futurist, known for his works discussing the digital revolution, communication revolution, corporate revolution and technological singularity. A former associate editor of Fortune magazine, his early work focused on technology and its impact (through effects like information overload). Then he moved to examining the reaction of and changes in society. His later focus has been on the increasing power of 21st century military hardware, weapons and technology proliferation, and capitalism. He founded Toffler Associates, a management consulting company, and was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, visiting professor at Cornell University, faculty member of the New School for Social Research, a White House correspondent, an editor of Fortune magazine, and a business consultant.Toffler explains, Society needs people who take care of the elderly and who know how to be compassionate and honest. Society needs people who work in hospitals. Society needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they re emotional, they re affectional. You can t run the society on data and computers alone. Toffler is also frequently cited as stating: "Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn." The words came from Herbert Gerjuoy, whom Toffler cites in full as follows: "The new education must teach the individual how to classify and reclassify information, how to evaluate its veracity, how to change categories when necessary, how to move from the concrete to the abstract and back, how to look at problems from a new direction how to teach himself. In his book The Third Wave Toffler describes three types of societies, based on the concept of waves each wave pushes the older societies and cultures aside. First Wave is the society after agrarian revolution and replaced the first hunter-gatherer cultures. Second Wave is the society during the Industrial Revolution (ca. late 17th century through the mid-20th century). The main components of the Second Wave society are nuclear family, factory-type education system and the corporation. Toffler writes: The Second Wave Society is industrial and based on mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass recreation, mass entertainment, and weapons of mass destruction. You combine those things with standardization, centralization, concentration, and synchronization, and you wind up with a style of organization we call bureaucracy. Third Wave is the post-industrial society. According to Toffler, since the late 1950s most nations have been moving away from a Second Wave Society into what he would call a Third Wave Society, one based on actionable knowledge as a primary resource. His description of this (super-industrial society) dovetails into other writers' concepts (like the Information Age, Space Age, Electronic Era, Global Village, technetronic age, scientific-technological revolution), which to various degrees predicted demassification, diversity, knowledge-based production, and the acceleration of change (one of Toffler s key maxims is change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways ). In this post-industrial society, there is a wide diversity of lifestyles ( subcultures ). Adhocracies (fluid organizations) adapt quickly to changes. Information can substitute most of the material resources (see ersatz) and becomes the main material for workers (cognitarians instead of proletarians), who are loosely affiliated. Mass customization offers the possibility of cheap, personal.…

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1/4 Cloth. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. A bright first edition/first printing in Very Good+ condition with light soiling to page edges in alike price clipped dust-jacket; The book is about the future of work and how technology, globalization, and other factors are changing the way we live and work. It discusses the impact of these changes on society, the economy, and the environment.; 8vo; FSA. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. 585pp. Pen underlining and dog-eared corners on a few pages including contents, about very good in fine dust jacket.

Hardback. Zustand: Good. A look at the world today and the methods of wielding and controlling power. Heavy; DJ. DJ sunned. 585 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 584 pages. DJ slightly worn, Light tanning While headlines today focus on the tremendous shifts of power at the global leve l, the author says that equally significant, but largly unnoticed, shifts of pow er are taking place in the intimate, everyday world we inhabit -- the world of s upermarkets and hospitals, banks and business offices, television and telephones . Power shifts are transforming finance, politics, and the media, together creat ing a now radically different society. The very nature of power is changing.…