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All very good, except I have some caveats with the two basic premisis ( ' deep fundamentals ' the the knowlege economy < maybe not wrong, but too vauge > )
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Revolutionary Wealth: How It Will Be Created and How It Will Change Our Lives
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Since the mid-1960s, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have predicted the far-reaching impact of emerging technological, economic, and social developments on our businesses, governments, families, and daily lives. In REVOLUTIONARY WEALTH, they once again demonstrate their unparalleled ability to illuminate current trends and anticipate what they mean for the future.
REVOLUTIONARY WEALTH focuses on how wealth will be created—and who will get it—in the twenty-first century. As the knowledge-based economy (a reality the Tofflers predicted forty years ago) continues to replace the industrial-based economy, they argue, money is no longer the sole determinate of wealth. The Tofflers explain that we are becoming a nation of “prosumers,” consuming what we ourselves produce, and argue that we have all taken on “third jobs”—work we unwittingly do without pay for some of the biggest corporations in the country. Using fascinating examples from our daily lives, they illustrate how our everyday activities—from parenting and volunteering to blogging, painting our houses, and improving our diets—contribute to a non-monetary economy that is largely hidden from economists. Writing with the same insight and clarity that made their earlier books bestsellers, the Tofflers present fresh, groundbreaking new ways of thinking about wealth.
REVOLUTIONARY WEALTH focuses on how wealth will be created—and who will get it—in the twenty-first century. As the knowledge-based economy (a reality the Tofflers predicted forty years ago) continues to replace the industrial-based economy, they argue, money is no longer the sole determinate of wealth. The Tofflers explain that we are becoming a nation of “prosumers,” consuming what we ourselves produce, and argue that we have all taken on “third jobs”—work we unwittingly do without pay for some of the biggest corporations in the country. Using fascinating examples from our daily lives, they illustrate how our everyday activities—from parenting and volunteering to blogging, painting our houses, and improving our diets—contribute to a non-monetary economy that is largely hidden from economists. Writing with the same insight and clarity that made their earlier books bestsellers, the Tofflers present fresh, groundbreaking new ways of thinking about wealth.
512 pages, Paperback
First published January 1,2006
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512 pages, Paperback
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June 12, 2007 by Crown
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9780385522076
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038552207X
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English
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Alvin Eugene Toffler was an American writer, futurist, and businessman known for his works discussing modern technologies, including the digital revolution and the communication revolution, with emphasis on their effects on cultures worldwide. He is regarded as one of the world's outstanding futurists.
Toffler was an associate editor of Fortune magazine. In his early works he focused on technology and its impact, which he termed "information overload". In 1970, his first major book about the future, Future Shock, became a worldwide best-seller and has sold over 6 million copies.
He and his wife Heidi Toffler (1929–2019), who collaborated with him for most of his writings, moved on to examining the reaction to changes in society with another best-selling book, The Third Wave, in 1980. In it, he foresaw such technological advances as cloning, personal computers, the Internet, cable television and mobile communication. His later focus, via their other best-seller, Powershift, (1990), was on the increasing power of 21st-century military hardware and the proliferation of new technologies.
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, and a business consultant. Toffler's ideas and writings were a significant influence on the thinking of business and government leaders worldwide, including China's Zhao Ziyang, and AOL founder Steve Case.
Toffler was an associate editor of Fortune magazine. In his early works he focused on technology and its impact, which he termed "information overload". In 1970, his first major book about the future, Future Shock, became a worldwide best-seller and has sold over 6 million copies.
He and his wife Heidi Toffler (1929–2019), who collaborated with him for most of his writings, moved on to examining the reaction to changes in society with another best-selling book, The Third Wave, in 1980. In it, he foresaw such technological advances as cloning, personal computers, the Internet, cable television and mobile communication. His later focus, via their other best-seller, Powershift, (1990), was on the increasing power of 21st-century military hardware and the proliferation of new technologies.
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, and a business consultant. Toffler's ideas and writings were a significant influence on the thinking of business and government leaders worldwide, including China's Zhao Ziyang, and AOL founder Steve Case.
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بعضی از رخدادهای دهه گذشته و اطلاعاتی که به تاریخ اقتصادی و اجتماعی کشورها در صده گذشته وجود دارد را با هم در آمیخته و با توجه به این واقعیتها معانی جدیدی برای مصرف کننده و تولید کننده و قدرتهایی که در این زمینه فعالیت دارند را شرح داده و سعی در ایجاد دیدگاه یا اصطلاحی جدید به نام تولیصرف دارد.
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I've been struck recently by how we currently seem to value only what can show up on a spreadsheet. This gave me a peek at what lies beneath, where it came from and where it all could be going. Oddly, it is also rather uplifting and reassuring, which I did not expect.
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Obligation for everyone who wants to know why mankind are at level in the moment.I found many answers of questions which are challenge interest in me.In some moments Toffler enters in deep economy terms which I cannot understand it.Undoubtedly I will re-read some parts of this book when I accumulate more economic theory in my head.
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It is one of the best book i have read from Alvin Toffler
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This book is really, really good for the first two-thirds. then it gets repetitive. It was a chore to finish; the ideas were told again and again. It needed an editor badly.
That said, it was a clear-eyed analysis of the Information Age. I found it very useful in clarifying my thinking and in recognizing some trends I had not previously articulated or even noticed. Definitely worth the read.
That said, it was a clear-eyed analysis of the Information Age. I found it very useful in clarifying my thinking and in recognizing some trends I had not previously articulated or even noticed. Definitely worth the read.
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Awesome book. The narrator's voice is strange
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I really liked the way how he puts the Prosumer (producer+consumer) concept as this is what behavioral economists along with me see as something what should be known and taught more at universities. I am definitely going to elaborate the grey economy more in my further studies. It also opened other new interesting topics to study to me and what I really appreciate is the overall optimism, that really made me to think about both the future threats and the opportunities constructively instead of being pessimistic about the forthcoming turbulent social, political and economical changes.
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