Revolutionary wealth
By: Alvin Toffler and Heidi Toffler ; [includes a new foreword by the authors].
Contributors: Toffler, Heidi, 1929-
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Currency/Doubleday
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 490
ISBN-13: 9780385522076
Subjects: Economic forecasting.; Wealth.; Social change.; Social prediction.; Economic history -- 1945-; Social history -- 1945-; Civilization, Modern -- 1950-; Twenty-first century -- Forecasts.
Genres: Forecasts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [456]-465) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1: Revolution; title: Spearheading wealth; title: The child of desire; title: 2: Deep fundamentals; title: Waves of wealth; title: Deep fundamentals; title: 3: Rearranging time; title: The clash of speeds; title: The synchronization industry; title: The arrhythmic economy; title: The new timescape; title: 4: Stretching space; title: The great circle; title: Higher-value-added places; title: Spatial reach; title: An unready world; title: Thrust reversers; title: The space drive; title: 5: Trusting knowledge; title: The edge of knowledge; title: Tomorrow's "oil"; title: The obsoledge trap; title: The quesnay factor; title: Filtering truth; title: Trashing the lab; title: The truth managers; title: Coda: convergence; title: 6: Prosuming; title: The hidden half; title: The health prosumers; title: Our third job; title: The coming prosumer explosion; title: More "free lunch"; title: The music storm; title: The "productivity" hormone; title: Coda: invisible channels; title: 7: Decadence; title: The gospel of change; title: Implosion; title: Corroding the wires; title: Complexorama; title: The sepulveda solution; title: Coda: after decadence; title: 8: Capitalism's future; title: Capitalism's end game; title: Converting capital; title: Impossible markets; title: Running tomorrow's money; title: 9: Poverty; title: The old future of poverty; title: Twin tracks to tomorrow; title: Cracking poverty's core; title: 10: The new tectonics; title: China's next surprise?; title: Japan's next bamboo ring; title: Europe's lost message; title: Inside America; title: Outside America; title: The unseen game of games; title: The prologue is past.