Alvin Toffler

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.

Describes how "a new system of wealth creation" is transforming "power at every level of society."

Reproduces and includes commentary upon a report entitled "Social dynamics and the Bell System" prepared by Alvin Toffler with the assistance of Marilyn Shapiro, and originally submitted to the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

A survey of early medieval thought and the development of the first truly European civilization.

Toffler, author of Future Shock, predicts a "breakdown of industrial civilization...and the first fragmentary appearance of a wholly new civilization", based upon his belief in a coming worldwide depression.

Analyzes the way the future is dealt with in college and high school classrooms and calls for drastic changes in the way educators prepare individuals for life in the future.

Describes some of the problems our technology has created for society and suggests some strategies for coping in the future.

Art et science militaires en cette fin de 20e siècle. Toutes les formes que peut prendre la guerre. Les armes nouvelles.