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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 are becoming a nation of “prosumers,” consuming what we ourselves produce, and argue that we have all taken on “third jobs”—work we unwittingly do without pay for some of the biggest corporations in the country. Using fascinating examples from our daily lives, they illustrate how our everyday activities—from parenting and volunteering to blogging, painting our houses, and improving our diets—contribute to a non-monetary economy that is largely hidden from economists. Writing with the same insight and clarity that made their earlier books bestsellers, the Tofflers present fresh, groundbreaking new ways of thinking about wealth.
Read Online Revolutionary Wealth How it will be created and how it will change our lives Alvin Toffler Heidi Toffler 9780385522076 Books
"I love Toffler's ideas and his writing style. I feel like I got everything I was going to get out of this book about two thirds of the way in. Nonetheless, I finished it. Toffler may be a little too optimistic, but at least he frequently qualifies that optimism."
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Revolutionary Wealth How it will be created and how it will change our lives Alvin Toffler Heidi Toffler 9780385522076 Books Reviews :
Revolutionary Wealth How it will be created and how it will change our lives Alvin Toffler Heidi Toffler 9780385522076 Books Reviews
- Alvin Toffler always has the gift of explaining complex issues in a clear understandable fashion. This is a book that every US voter should read to cast an intelligent vote for all contenders for public office. Sadly I think if we took a poll we would be shocked at how few Congress people have ever read it. This book would go a long way to educating the sound bite so called Right and the ranting Tea Party to the reality of the current global political and economic situation. It would also go far to educate the Leftist side of the electorate. Understanding what he put forth in this and his previous books would insure an intelligent vote rather than continuing with uneducated, emotional votes. This is a book that should be read in 12th grade in all public high schools.
- I have not finished the book yet; however, it is just what I have come to expect from the Tofflers. Their insights have helped me tremendously throughout my lifetime and become my religion of sorts as I make my way through the world! I am always especially and remarkably astounded at the breadth and versatility of their inventory of analogies and real world references from so many different perspectives, genres, points of view, and physical anomalies which are so easy to relate to whenever they pop up in the text.
I look forward with great enthusiasm and anticipation to every new work they publish! - This book continues the prescient observations made by the authors during the past several decades. Future Shock, The Third Wave, Powershift, and now Revolutionary Wealth have given interesting and valuable insights into some of the important changes that are likely to occur during the coming years. Changes that affect most areas of most lives. Realistic, yet optimistic. (I suppose some would say that you cannot have both.) Particularly interesting to me were the discussions of the "deep fundamentals" of time and space, and of "filtering truth."
- I liked Future Shock, so I was hoping the Tofflers would have another hit. What a miss. I'm not begrudging the $11 I spent to download the book to my Pocket PC (T-Mobile MDA Pro, with Microsoft Reader), but this work is one tedious, repetitious bore. The Tofflers rehash the last 50 years, with occasional forays into the more distant past and the possible future. If you've read the Wall Street Journal for many years, you know what's in the book already. I'm a knowledge worker myself (certified systems engineer) and have written thousands of computer programs in science, engineering, and accounting, but I recognize (unlike the Tofflers) that most people on the planet cannot do this work, and that most people will still be employed in industry (the "Second Wave"). Yes, we've gone from the hunter-gatherer economy (which could be called the "Zeroth Wave") to the agricultural economy ("First Wave") to the industrial economy ("Second Wave") and now to the knowledge-based economy ("Third Wave"). But not everything in culture or history fits this paradigm--witness the conflict between the West and the Islamo-Fascists, barely discussed by the Tofflers. The work turns to lunacy when the Tofflers forecast the end of capitalism as we know it and the dollar. Weird. The Tofflers discuss the poor performance of the European Union but don't state the obvious cause socialism. The real hope for the world is free market capitalism and limited government, not merely a knowledge-based economy.
The Tofflers seem fond of various neologisms, like "prosumer" and "complexorama." It's quite true that the three sectors of the economy are the private, the public (government), and the voluntary ("prosumer" to the Tofflers). But, the Tofflers vastly overestimate the effect of volunteers, even to the point of stating that it's equal to the money economy. They cite the development of Linux as an example. But many enterprises (probably most) start as avocations before becoming vocations. One has to practice before charging real money for work. It's a common marketing ploy to price a product at zero or very little at the beginning, and then charge more later on.
The Table of Contents is fine, but there is no index (at least not in the digital version), no charts, no graphs, and no equations. The End Notes and Bibliography are fine, but the references in the body of the text (to particular pages in the Bibliography) are missing! Again, weird. - This book was published some time ago. The predictions in many catagoriess have already become reality. If you want some snap shots of trends that do/will define the future, this is a good place to start. You can dip into this book on what ever subject interest you so you don't have to read from the start. Well written and spot on!
- It make me impatient when people worry about reading and learning how the future of wealth will be. Possibly, they need encouragement of the author who may be forgotten but the fruit of his/her encouragement remain.
Before the history of future suprising us, Alvin and Heidi Toffler give a positive expression of reality in a third wave world, which may often seem to be filled with negative and resistance from vested interests.
THE REVOLUTIONARY WEALTH provides us with powerful new tools for thinking about and preparing for our future.
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Alhaj Hammad A. Ntungwabona - I love Toffler's ideas and his writing style. I feel like I got everything I was going to get out of this book about two thirds of the way in. Nonetheless, I finished it. Toffler may be a little too optimistic, but at least he frequently qualifies that optimism.
- fantastic book
