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knowledge, wealth, and violence at the edge of the 21st century

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Powershift

knowledge, wealth, and violence at the edge of the 21st century

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In this follow-up to "Future Shock" and "The Third Wave", Toffler argues that the very nature of power itself has shifted from muscle and money to the mind. The author predicts that the century's end will be dominated by battles for control over information, knowledge and the media.

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Publisher
Bantam Books
Language
English
Pages
585

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Cover of: Da wei lai
Da wei lai
1993, Ren min Zhongguo chu ban she
in Chinese - Di 1 ban
Cover of: Powershift
Powershift: knowledge, wealth, and violence at the edge of the 21st century
1991, Bantam Books
in English - Paperback ed.
Cover of: Les nouveaux pouvoirs
Cover of: Powershift
Cover of: Powershift
Powershift: knowledge, wealth, and violence in the 21st century
1990, Bantam Books
Cover of: Powershift

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Table of Contents

The powershift era
Muscle, money, and mind
Beyond the age of glitz
Force : the Yakuza component
Wealth : Morgan, Milken
and after
Knowledge : a wealth of symbols
Material-ismo!
The ultimate substitute
The checkout battle
Extra-intelligence
Net power
The widening war
The executive thought police
Total information war
The cubbyhole crash
The flex-firm
Tribal chiefs and corporate commissars
The autonomous employee
The power-mosaic
CODA : the new system for wealth creation
The decisive decades
The invisible party
Info-tactics
Meta-tactics
A market for spies
The info-agenda
The image makers
Subversive media
The "screenie" generation
CODA : yearnings for a new dark age
The global "K-factor"
The fast and the slow
Socialism's collision with the future
The power of balance
Triads : Tokyo
Berlin
Washington
The global gladiators
CODA : freedom, order, and chance.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 477-506) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
303.4
Library of Congress
HN17.5 .T6417 1990

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxii, 585 p. ;
Number of pages
585

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1849652M
Internet Archive
powershiftknowletoff00toff
ISBN 10
0553057766
LCCN
90001068
Library Thing
65326
Goodreads
2749354

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