An edition of Revolutionary wealth
(2006)
Revolutionary wealth
1st ed.
by Alvin Toffler
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Social analysts Alvin and Heidi Toffler turn their attention to the revolution in wealth now sweeping the planet. This book is about how tomorrow's wealth will be created, and who will get it and how. But 21st-century wealth, they argue, is not just about money, and cannot be understood in terms of industrial-age economics. They write 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 earlier work, they coined the word "prosumer" for people who consume what they themselves produce. Here they expand the concept to reveal how many of our activities--parenting, volunteering, blogging, painting our house, improving our diet, organizing a neighborhood council--pump "free lunch" from the "hidden" non-money economy into the money economy that economists track.--From publisher description.
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Wealth, Prévision sociale, Changement social, Previsão econômica, Social prediction, Saúde (teoria), Civilisation, Vingt et unième siècle, História econômica, Economic history, Richesse, Forecasts, Twenty-first century, Modern Civilization, Sociale verandering, Civilization, Modern,, Histoire sociale, História social, Social change, Economic forecasting, Histoire économique, Mudança social, Rijkdom, Prévisions, Prévision économique, Saúde (aspectos econômicos), Social history, Voorspellingen, New York Times reviewed, Economic history, 1945-, Social history, 20th century, Civilization, modern, 1950-, Société postindustrielle, Connaissance, Sciences de l'information, Prospective, Prospective sociale, Développement économique, Histoire, Économie du savoir, Société industrielle, Économie politique, Prospective économique, Société post-industrielle, Changement (sociologie)Showing 4 featured editions. View all 13 editions?
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Table of Contents
Introduction -- -- pt. 1.
Revolution -- -- 1.
Spearheading wealth --
Fad of the month --
Loosened constraints --
Guitars and anti-heroes --
Giggle news --
Embedding intelligence --
Capital tools for knowledge -- -- The
wilder shores --
Converging possibilities -- -- 2. The
child of desire -- -- The
meaning of wealth --
Managers of desire --
pt. 2.
Deep fundamentals -- -- 3.
Waves of wealth -- -- The
pre-historic Einstein -- -- The
man who ate himself --
Beyond fantasy --
Today's wealth wave --
Three lives, three worlds -- -- 4.
Deep fundamentals -- -- The
inerrantists --
Obsolete fundamentals -- -- The
future of the job --
Interplay --
pt. 3.
Rearranging time -- -- 5. The
clash of speeds --
Trains on time? --
Ready with the radar --
Leaders and laggards --
When elephants stand pat --
Inertia vs. hyperspeed -- -- 6. The
synchronization industry --
Dancing toward productivity --
No more cold eggs --
No last-minute scramble -- -- 7. The
arrhythmic economy -- -- The
ecology of time --
Casualties of time --
Post-merger blues -- -- The
time tax -- -- The
technology ballet --
Supper without sushi -- -- 8. The
new timescape -- -- The
chains of time --
Love at high speed --
Customizing time --
When good ideas arrive --
Media time --
Family, friends and face time -- -- The
Americanization of time? -- -- The
24/7 future --
Whizzing toward where? --
pt. 4.
Stretching space -- -- 9. The
great circle --
Asia, ho! --
Opening the floodgates -- -- 10.
Higher-value-added places --
Yesterday's places --
Dissolving borders -- -- The
cheap-labor derby --
Tomorrow's real estate -- -- 11.
Spatial reach --
Personal geography --
Mobile money --
Invaders and invaded -- -- 12. An
unready world --
More capitalist than thou -- -- The
Evian and ketchup test --
Yellow dust --
True believers -- -- 13.
Thrust reversers -- -- The
new Titanic --
Export overload -- -- The
nano-teaspoon --
Mad Max scenarios -- -- 14. The
space drive --
From dialysis to heart pumps --
Pilots, planes and packages --
Unexplored wealth frontiers --
pt. 5.
Trusting knowledge -- -- 15. The
edge of knowledge --
Kicking tires -- -- 16.
Tomorrow's "oil" -- -- The
more we use...? --
Steel mills and shoes --
Our inner "warehouse" --
Just ASK --
Forget Alzheimer's -- -- 17. The
obsoledge trap --
Yesterday's truths --
Emily's attic -- -- 18. The
Quesnay factor --
Blooper economics --
Estimates of estimates --
Piecemeal papers -- -- The
missing framework -- -- The
mistress's doctor -- -- 19.
Filtering truth --
Truth on trial --
Six filters --
Consensus --
Consistency --
Authority --
Revelation --
Durability --
Science --
Truth shifts -- -- 20.
Trashing the lab --
Razor blades and rights --
Flip-flop politics --
Patriarchy and palmistry -- -- Las
Vegas as role model -- -- The
eco-missionaries --
Secret science -- -- 21. The
truth managers --
Persuading the boss -- -- 22.
Coda : convergence --
Tortoise time --
Once-true analogies --
Mapping the knowable --
pt. 6.
Prosuming -- -- 23. The
hidden half -- -- The
prosumer economy -- -- A
mum in a million -- -- The
potty test --
What price disintegration? --
Grossly distorted product (GDP) -- -- 24. The
health prosumers --
Betting on one hundred? -- -- The
panic zone --
Besieged by breakthroughs -- -- The
diabetes game -- -- 25.
Our third job --
Beyond the buffet -- -- The
supermarket shove -- -- 26. The
coming prosumer explosion --
Guitars and golf bags --
Rampant consumerism? --
Cookies and simulations --
Dwarfing Hollywood --
Collective prosuming --
Busting the hierarchies -- -- 27.
More "free lunch" --
Teachers, nurses and horses --
Amateurs matter --
Uncooking the books --
Down-to-earth --
Attacking anthrax -- -- 28. The
music storm --
Estonian geeks --
Prosumer power --
Baby prosumers --
Liposuction without surgery -- -- 29. The
"productivity" hormone --
Beyond education --
Rajender's game -- -- 30.
Coda : invisible channels -- -- The
prosumer impact --
Unnoticed therapy --
pt. 7.
Decadence -- -- 31. The
gospel of change -- -- The
third source --
Teen trash --
Paul's story --
Hollywood hedonism --
One step in the river -- -- 32.
Implosion --
Pandemic loneliness --
Post-kindergarten factories --
Creative accounting --
Intensive care -- -- The
golden years --
Politics of the surreal --
Systemic breakdown -- -- An
epidemic of failure --
Stars on strike -- -- 33.
Corroding the wires --
FBI time --
Global space -- -- An
overload of obsoledge -- -- 34.
Complexorama --
What Bill Gates knows --
12,203 problems -- -- 35. The
Sepulveda solution --
Every American woman --
Fake transformation --
Shifting chairs --
Cameras and cops --
Creating new institutions --
Innovations that breed innovations --
Inventing the think tank -- -- 36.
Coda : after decadence -- -- The
values of war --
Extreme extremes --
Anti-decadence --
Mingling with moguls --
Inventing new models --
"Satanic mills" --
Post-Cassandra? --
pt. 8.
Capitalism's future -- -- 37.
Capitalism's end game --
Cars and cameras -- -- The
untouchables -- -- The
fetish of touch -- -- The
horse and the song -- -- 38.
Converting capital --
Ranges of risk --
Democratic doorways --
Growth in econo-land --
Flattening the down -- -- 39.
Impossible markets --
Rare money --
Mass + Mass = Mass+ --
Flash-markets --
Personal pricing --
Approaching the limits? --
Whispered secrets -- -- The
virtual twin -- -- 40.
Running tomorrow's money -- -- The
hidden tax --
Blips on chips -- -- The
closing bell --
Wildcat currency --
Para-money -- -- The
anti-obesity card --
Streaming money --
Pepsi vodka --
Prosumer pay? --
pt. 9.
Poverty -- -- 41. The
old future of poverty --
Hitting the limit -- -- A
poverty of strategies --
Typical Japanese "muck" -- -- The
spillover effect --
Asia can't wait -- -- 42.
Twin tracks to tomorrow --
India awakened --
Bangalore central -- -- The
greatest generation? ---
Yes, but no -- -- 43.
Cracking poverty's core --
Instead of trial and error --
Bring on the bananas --
Bio-economies --
Help from the heavens --
Secret prices -- -- The
smartest agronomist --
Smart dust --
Bill Gates's echo --
What worked best won't --
Distributing energy --
Hyper-agriculture --
pt. 10. The
new tectonics -- -- 44.
China's next surprise? --
Looming over the world --
Accelerating acceleration --
Global space --
Mining knowledge --
Wave politics --
Three Chinas --
Mercedes, mall and militia --
Wave war -- -- The
bloody thread --
Meet Mao II -- -- 45.
Japan's next bamboo ring --
Latte, anyone? --
Japan's lopsided leap --
Flex-nations --
Decision delay --
No more Christmas cakes -- -- The
silver wave -- -- A
Filipina or a robot? --
Awaiting the ring -- -- 46.
Europe's lost message -- -- The
all-time low -- -- The
widening split --
Speeding in slow motion --
Yesterday's heartland -- -- The
Lisbon dream -- -- 47.
Inside America --
More wave warfare --
24 billion hours --
Stealing the future -- -- The
nameless coalition --
Forces for change -- -- The
next step -- -- 48.
Outside America -- -- The
old game -- -- An
"unsordid act" --
Backlash and bewilderment --
Reversing homogeneity -- -- 49. The
unseen game of games --
Neo-games --
No longer human? --
Tomorrow's NGOs --
Religio-economics --
God on the move -- -- The
end of petro-power --
Utopia past -- -- The
fragility of power -- -- The
nano-now -- -- 50.
Epilogue : The prologue is past -- -- The
nostalgia brigade -- -- A
prosumer pathway? --
Pessimist-in-chief --
Moon power --
Hope for the human race? --
From picos to yoctos --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Acknowledgments --
Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [457]-466) and index.
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