Powershift :
Toffler, Alvin.
Powershift : knowledge, wealth, and violence at the edge of the 21st century / by Alvin Toffler. - New York, N.Y. : Bantam Books, 1990. - xxii, 611 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The powershift era--Muscle, money, and mind--Beyond the age of glitz--Force : the Yakuza component--Wealth : Morgan, Milken-- and after--Knowledge : a wealth of symbols--Material-ismo!--The ultimate substitute--The checkout battle--Extra-intelligence--Net power--The widening war--The executive thought police--Total information war--The cubbyhole crash--The flex-firm--Tribal chiefs and corporate commissars--The autonomous employee--The power-mosaic--CODA : the new system for wealth creation--The decisive decades--The invisible party--Info-tactics--Meta-tactics--A market for spies--The info-agenda--The image makers--Subversive media--The "screenie" generation--CODA : yearnings for a new dark age--The global "K-factor"--The fast and the slow--Socialism's collision with the future--The power of balance--Triads : Tokyo--Berlin--Washington--The global gladiators--CODA : freedom, order, and chance.
0553292153
Social history--1945-.
Economic history--1945-.
Power (Social sciences).
Social change.
Powershift : knowledge, wealth, and violence at the edge of the 21st century / by Alvin Toffler. - New York, N.Y. : Bantam Books, 1990. - xxii, 611 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The powershift era--Muscle, money, and mind--Beyond the age of glitz--Force : the Yakuza component--Wealth : Morgan, Milken-- and after--Knowledge : a wealth of symbols--Material-ismo!--The ultimate substitute--The checkout battle--Extra-intelligence--Net power--The widening war--The executive thought police--Total information war--The cubbyhole crash--The flex-firm--Tribal chiefs and corporate commissars--The autonomous employee--The power-mosaic--CODA : the new system for wealth creation--The decisive decades--The invisible party--Info-tactics--Meta-tactics--A market for spies--The info-agenda--The image makers--Subversive media--The "screenie" generation--CODA : yearnings for a new dark age--The global "K-factor"--The fast and the slow--Socialism's collision with the future--The power of balance--Triads : Tokyo--Berlin--Washington--The global gladiators--CODA : freedom, order, and chance.
0553292153
Social history--1945-.
Economic history--1945-.
Power (Social sciences).
Social change.