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Revolutionary Wealth How It Will Be Created and How It Will Change Our Lives

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ISBN-10: 038552207X

ISBN-13: 9780385522076

Edition: 2006 (Annotated)

Authors: Alvin Toffler, Heidi Toffler

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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…    
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List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/12/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Foreword
Introduction
Revolution
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
The Child of Desire
The Meaning of Wealth
Managers of Desire
Deep Fundamentals
Waves of Wealth
The Pre-Historic Einstein
The Man Who Ate Himself
Beyond Fantasy
Today's Wealth Wave
Three Lives, Three Worlds
Deep Fundamentals
The Inerrantists
Obsolete Fundamentals
The Future of the Job
Interplay
Rearranging Time
The Clash of Speeds
Trains on Time?
Ready with the Radar
Leaders and Laggards
When Elephants Stand Pat
Inertia Vs. Hyper-Speed
The Synchronization Industry
Dancing Toward Productivity
No More Cold Eggs
No Last-Minute Scramble
The Arrhythmic Economy
The Ecology of Time
Casualties of Time
Post-merger Blues
The Time Tax
The Technology Ballet
Supper Without Sushi
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?
Stretching Space
The Great Circle
Asia, Ho!
Opening the Floodgates
Higher-Value-Added Places
Yesterday's Places
Dissolving Borders
The Cheap-Labor Derby
Tomorrow's Real Estate
Spatial Reach
Personal Geography
Mobile Money
Invaders and Invaded
An Unready World
More Capitalist Than Thou
The Evian and Ketchup Test
Yellow Dust
True Believers
Thrust Reversers
The New Titanic
Export Overload
The Nano-Teaspoon
Mad Max Scenarios
The Space Drive
From Dialysis to Heart Pumps
Pilots, Planes and Packages
Unexplored Wealth Frontiers
Trusting Knowledge
The Edge of Knowledge
Kicking Tires
Tomorrow's "Oil"
The More We Use...?
Steel Mills and Shoes
Our Inner "Warehouse"
Just Ask
Forget Alzheimer's
The Obsoledge Trap
Yesterday's Truths
Emily's Attic
The Quesnay Factor
Blooper Economics
Estimates of Estimates
Piecemeal Papers
The Missing Framework
The Mistress's Doctor
Filtering Truth
Truth on Trial
Six Filters
Consensus
Consistency
Authority
Revelation
Durability
Science
Truth Shifts
Trashing the Lab
Razor Blades and Rights
Flip-Flop Politics
Patriarchy and Palmistry
Las Vegas as Role Model
The Eco-Missionaries
Secret Science
The Truth Managers
Persuading the Boss
Coda: Convergence
Tortoise Time
Once-True Analogies
Mapping the Knowable
Prosuming
The Hidden Half
The Prosumer Economy
A Mum in a Million
The Potty Test
What Price Disintegration?
Grossly Distorted Product (GDP)
The Health Prosumers
Betting on One Hundred?
The Panic Zone
Besieged by Breakthroughs
The Diabetes Game
Our Third Job
Beyond the Buffet
The Supermarket Shove
The Coming Prosumer Explosion
Guitars and Golf Bags
Rampant Consumerism?
Cookies and Simulations
Dwarfing Hollywood
Collective Prosuming
Busting the Hierarchies
More "Free Lunch"
Teachers, Nurses and Horses
Amateurs Matter
Uncooking the Books
Down-to-Earth
Attacking Anthrax
The Music Storm
Estonian Geeks
Prosumer Power
Baby Prosumers
Liposuction Without Surgery
The "Producivity" Hormone
Beyond Education
Rajender's Game
Coda: Invisible Channels
The Prosumer Impact
Unnoticed Therapy
Decadence
The Gospel of Change
The Third Source
Teen Trash
Paul's Story
Hollywood Hedonism
One Step in the River
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
Corroding the Wires
FBI Time
Global Space
An Overload of Obsoledge
Complexorama
What Bill Gates Knows
12,203 Problems
The Sepulveda Solution
Every American Woman
Fake Transformation
Shifting Chairs
Cameras and Cops
Creating New Institutions
Innovations That Breed Innovations
Inventing the Think Tank
Coda: After Decadence
The Values War
Extreme Extremes
Anti-Decadence
Mingling with Moguls
Inventing New Models
"Satanic Mills"
Post-Cassandra?
Capitalism's Future
Capitalism's End Game
Cars and Cameras
The Untouchables
The Fetish of Touch
The Horse and the Song
Converting Capital
Ranges of Risk
Democratic Doorways
Growth in Econo-Land
Flattening the Down
Impossible Markets
Rare Money
Mass + Mass = Mass+
Flash-Markets
Personal Pricing
Approaching the Limits?
Whispered Secrets
The Virtual Twin
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?
Poverty
The Old Future of Poverty
Hitting the Limit
A Poverty of Strategies
Typical Japanese "Muck"
The Spillover Effect
Asia Can't Wait
Twin Tracks to Tomorrow
India Awakened
Bangalore Central
The Greatest Generation?
Yes, but No
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
Hyperagriculture
The New Tectonics
China's Next Surprise?
Looming over the World
Accelerating Acceleration
Global Space
Mining Knowledge
Wave Politics
Three Chinas
Mercedes, Malls and Militia
Wave War
The Bloody Thread
Meet Mao II
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
Europe's Lost Message
The All-Time Low
The Widening Split
Speeding in Slow Motion
Yesterday's Heartland
The Lisbon Dream
Inside America
More Wave Warfare
24 Billion Hours
Stealing the Future
The Nameless Coalition
Forces for Change
The Next Step
Outside America
The Old Game
An "Unsordid Act"
Backlash and Bewilderment
Reversing Homogeneity
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
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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