Revolutionary wealth
By: Alvin Toffler and Heidi Toffler
Contributors: Toffler, Heidi, 1929-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780375401749
Subjects: Histoire sociale; Wealth; Prévision sociale; História social; Changement social; Social change; Previsão econômica; Social prediction; Saúde (teoria); Economic forecasting; Saúde (aspectos econômicos); Civilisation; Vingt et unième siècle; Rijkdom; Mudança social; Histoire économique; História econômica; Richesse; Forecasts; Prévisions; Twenty-first century; Modern Civilization; Social history; Sociale verandering; Economic history; Prévision économique; Voorspellingen
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [457]-466) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction -- -- pt. 1.; title: Revolution -- -- 1.; title: Spearheading wealth --; title: Fad of the month --; title: Loosened constraints --; title: Guitars and anti-heroes --; title: Giggle news --; title: Embedding intelligence --; title: Capital tools for knowledge -- -- The; title: wilder shores --; title: Converging possibilities -- -- 2. The; title: child of desire -- -- The; title: meaning of wealth --; title: Managers of desire --; title: pt. 2.; title: Deep fundamentals -- -- 3.; title: Waves of wealth -- -- The; title: pre-historic Einstein -- -- The; title: man who ate himself --; title: Beyond fantasy --; title: Today's wealth wave --; title: Three lives, three worlds -- -- 4.; title: Deep fundamentals -- -- The; title: inerrantists --; title: Obsolete fundamentals -- -- The; title: future of the job --; title: Interplay --; title: pt. 3.; title: Rearranging time -- -- 5. The; title: clash of speeds --; title: Trains on time? --; title: Ready with the radar --; title: Leaders and laggards --; title: When elephants stand pat --; title: Inertia vs. hyperspeed -- -- 6. The; title: synchronization industry --; title: Dancing toward productivity --; title: No more cold eggs --; title: No last-minute scramble -- -- 7. The; title: arrhythmic economy -- -- The; title: ecology of time --; title: Casualties of time --; title: Post-merger blues -- -- The; title: time tax -- -- The; title: technology ballet --; title: Supper without sushi -- -- 8. The; title: new timescape -- -- The; title: chains of time --; title: Love at high speed --; title: Customizing time --; title: When good ideas arrive --; title: Media time --; title: Family, friends and face time -- -- The; title: Americanization of time? -- -- The; title: 24/7 future --; title: Whizzing toward where? --; title: pt. 4.; title: Stretching space -- -- 9. The; title: great circle --; title: Asia, ho! --; title: Opening the floodgates -- -- 10.; title: Higher-value-added places --; title: Yesterday's places --; title: Dissolving borders -- -- The; title: cheap-labor derby --; title: Tomorrow's real estate -- -- 11.; title: Spatial reach --; title: Personal geography --; title: Mobile money --; title: Invaders and invaded -- -- 12. An; title: unready world --; title: More capitalist than thou -- -- The; title: Evian and ketchup test --; title: Yellow dust --; title: True believers -- -- 13.; title: Thrust reversers -- -- The; title: new Titanic --; title: Export overload -- -- The; title: nano-teaspoon --; title: Mad Max scenarios -- -- 14. The; title: space drive --; title: From dialysis to heart pumps --; title: Pilots, planes and packages --; title: Unexplored wealth frontiers --; title: pt. 5.; title: Trusting knowledge -- -- 15. The; title: edge of knowledge --; title: Kicking tires -- -- 16.; title: Tomorrow's "oil" -- -- The; title: more we use...? --; title: Steel mills and shoes --; title: Our inner "warehouse" --; title: Just ASK --; title: Forget Alzheimer's -- -- 17. The; title: obsoledge trap --; title: Yesterday's truths --; title: Emily's attic -- -- 18. The; title: Quesnay factor --; title: Blooper economics --; title: Estimates of estimates --; title: Piecemeal papers -- -- The; title: missing framework -- -- The; title: mistress's doctor -- -- 19.; title: Filtering truth --; title: Truth on trial --; title: Six filters --; title: Consensus --; title: Consistency --; title: Authority --; title: Revelation --; title: Durability --; title: Science --; title: Truth shifts -- -- 20.; title: Trashing the lab --; title: Razor blades and rights --; title: Flip-flop politics --; title: Patriarchy and palmistry -- -- Las; title: Vegas as role model -- -- The; title: eco-missionaries --; title: Secret science -- -- 21. The; title: truth managers --; title: Persuading the boss -- -- 22.; title: Coda : convergence --; title: Tortoise time --; title: Once-true analogies --; title: Mapping the knowable --; title: pt. 6.; title: Prosuming -- -- 23. The; title: hidden half -- -- The; title: prosumer economy -- -- A; title: mum in a million -- -- The; title: potty test --; title: What price disintegration? --; title: Grossly distorted product (GDP) -- -- 24. The; title: health prosumers --; title: Betting on one hundred? -- -- The; title: panic zone --; title: Besieged by breakthroughs -- -- The; title: diabetes game -- -- 25.; title: Our third job --; title: Beyond the buffet -- -- The; title: supermarket shove -- -- 26. The; title: coming prosumer explosion --; title: Guitars and golf bags --; title: Rampant consumerism? --; title: Cookies and simulations --; title: Dwarfing Hollywood --; title: Collective prosuming --; title: Busting the hierarchies -- -- 27.; title: More "free lunch" --; title: Teachers, nurses and horses --; title: Amateurs matter --; title: Uncooking the books --; title: Down-to-earth --; title: Attacking anthrax -- -- 28. The; title: music storm --; title: Estonian geeks --; title: Prosumer power --; title: Baby prosumers --; title: Liposuction without surgery -- -- 29. The; title: "productivity" hormone --; title: Beyond education --; title: Rajender's game -- -- 30.; title: Coda : invisible channels -- -- The; title: prosumer impact --; title: Unnoticed therapy --; title: pt. 7.; title: Decadence -- -- 31. The; title: gospel of change -- -- The; title: third source --; title: Teen trash --; title: Paul's story --; title: Hollywood hedonism --; title: One step in the river -- -- 32.; title: Implosion --; title: Pandemic loneliness --; title: Post-kindergarten factories --; title: Creative accounting --; title: Intensive care -- -- The; title: golden years --; title: Politics of the surreal --; title: Systemic breakdown -- -- An; title: epidemic of failure --; title: Stars on strike -- -- 33.; title: Corroding the wires --; title: FBI time --; title: Global space -- -- An; title: overload of obsoledge -- -- 34.; title: Complexorama --; title: What Bill Gates knows --; title: 12,203 problems -- -- 35. The; title: Sepulveda solution --; title: Every American woman --; title: Fake transformation --; title: Shifting chairs --; title: Cameras and cops --; title: Creating new institutions --; title: Innovations that breed innovations --; title: Inventing the think tank -- -- 36.; title: Coda : after decadence -- -- The; title: values of war --; title: Extreme extremes --; title: Anti-decadence --; title: Mingling with moguls --; title: Inventing new models --; title: "Satanic mills" --; title: Post-Cassandra? --; title: pt. 8.; title: Capitalism's future -- -- 37.; title: Capitalism's end game --; title: Cars and cameras -- -- The; title: untouchables -- -- The; title: fetish of touch -- -- The; title: horse and the song -- -- 38.; title: Converting capital --; title: Ranges of risk --; title: Democratic doorways --; title: Growth in econo-land --; title: Flattening the down -- -- 39.; title: Impossible markets --; title: Rare money --; title: Mass + Mass = Mass+ --; title: Flash-markets --; title: Personal pricing --; title: Approaching the limits? --; title: Whispered secrets -- -- The; title: virtual twin -- -- 40.; title: Running tomorrow's money -- -- The; title: hidden tax --; title: Blips on chips -- -- The; title: closing bell --; title: Wildcat currency --; title: Para-money -- -- The; title: anti-obesity card --; title: Streaming money --; title: Pepsi vodka --; title: Prosumer pay? --; title: pt. 9.; title: Poverty -- -- 41. The; title: old future of poverty --; title: Hitting the limit -- -- A; title: poverty of strategies --; title: Typical Japanese "muck" -- -- The; title: spillover effect --; title: Asia can't wait -- -- 42.; title: Twin tracks to tomorrow --; title: India awakened --; title: Bangalore central -- -- The; title: greatest generation? ---; title: Yes, but no -- -- 43.; title: Cracking poverty's core --; title: Instead of trial and error --; title: Bring on the bananas --; title: Bio-economies --; title: Help from the heavens --; title: Secret prices -- -- The; title: smartest agronomist --; title: Smart dust --; title: Bill Gates's echo --; title: What worked best won't --; title: Distributing energy --; title: Hyper-agriculture --; title: pt. 10. The; title: new tectonics -- -- 44.; title: China's next surprise? --; title: Looming over the world --; title: Accelerating acceleration --; title: Global space --; title: Mining knowledge --; title: Wave politics --; title: Three Chinas --; title: Mercedes, mall and militia --; title: Wave war -- -- The; title: bloody thread --; title: Meet Mao II -- -- 45.; title: Japan's next bamboo ring --; title: Latte, anyone? --; title: Japan's lopsided leap --; title: Flex-nations --; title: Decision delay --; title: No more Christmas cakes -- -- The; title: silver wave -- -- A; title: Filipina or a robot? --; title: Awaiting the ring -- -- 46.; title: Europe's lost message -- -- The; title: all-time low -- -- The; title: widening split --; title: Speeding in slow motion --; title: Yesterday's heartland -- -- The; title: Lisbon dream -- -- 47.; title: Inside America --; title: More wave warfare --; title: 24 billion hours --; title: Stealing the future -- -- The; title: nameless coalition --; title: Forces for change -- -- The; title: next step -- -- 48.; title: Outside America -- -- The; title: old game -- -- An; title: "unsordid act" --; title: Backlash and bewilderment --; title: Reversing homogeneity -- -- 49. The; title: unseen game of games --; title: Neo-games --; title: No longer human? --; title: Tomorrow's NGOs --; title: Religio-economics --; title: God on the move -- -- The; title: end of petro-power --; title: Utopia past -- -- The; title: fragility of power -- -- The; title: nano-now -- -- 50.; title: Epilogue : The prologue is past -- -- The; title: nostalgia brigade -- -- A; title: prosumer pathway? --; title: Pessimist-in-chief --; title: Moon power --; title: Hope for the human race? --; title: From picos to yoctos --; title: Notes --; title: Bibliography --; title: Acknowledgments --; title: Index.