Powershift
Subtitle: knowledge, wealth, and violence at the edge of the 21st century
By: Alvin Toffler.
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 585
Subjects: Social history -- 1945-; Economic history -- 1945-; Power (Social sciences); Social change
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 477-506) and index.
Table of contents: title: The powershift era; title: Muscle, money, and mind; title: Beyond the age of glitz; title: Force : the Yakuza component; title: Wealth : Morgan, Milken; title: and after; title: Knowledge : a wealth of symbols; title: Material-ismo!; title: The ultimate substitute; title: The checkout battle; title: Extra-intelligence; title: Net power; title: The widening war; title: The executive thought police; title: Total information war; title: The cubbyhole crash; title: The flex-firm; title: Tribal chiefs and corporate commissars; title: The autonomous employee; title: The power-mosaic; title: CODA : the new system for wealth creation; title: The decisive decades; title: The invisible party; title: Info-tactics; title: Meta-tactics; title: A market for spies; title: The info-agenda; title: The image makers; title: Subversive media; title: The "screenie" generation; title: CODA : yearnings for a new dark age; title: The global "K-factor"; title: The fast and the slow; title: Socialism's collision with the future; title: The power of balance; title: Triads : Tokyo; title: Berlin; title: Washington; title: The global gladiators; title: CODA : freedom, order, and chance.